Gnome Wayland support

[marwanehab98]

I tried to build the app for fedora myself, but it keeps crashing and I don't have enough rust knowledge to debug.

This is the error I am getting.

thread 'main' panicked at /home/runner/.cargo/git/checkouts/exwlshelleventloop-a014b6ad85076b09/de88e8d/layershellev/src/lib.rs:2472:34:

called \Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: NotPresent`

note: run with \RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace`

thread '<unnamed>' panicked at /home/runner/work/gauntlet/gauntlet/rust/utils/src/channel.rs:100:14:

the other side of a channel was dropped

2025-01-28T01:18:43.009951Z ERROR gauntlet_plugin_runtime: Unable to handle message: unexpected end of file

2025-01-28T01:18:43.009985Z ERROR gauntlet_plugin_runtime: Message loop has returned an error: unexpected end of file

2025-01-28T01:18:43.009998Z ERROR gauntlet_plugin_runtime: Message loop has unexpectedly stopped PluginId("bundled://gauntlet")

thread 'main' panicked at rust/plugin_runtime/src/lib.rs:57:10:

plugin runtime crashed: Broken pipe (os error 32)

note: run with \RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace`

Rejected promise, reason: Error: event stream was suddenly closed

at async runPluginLoop (ext:gauntlet/core.js:310:29)

at async gauntlet:init:8:5 

[Exidex]

I assume you are running Wayland Gnome. It is currently not supported because Wayland Gnome is pretty much the only Wayland implementation that doesn't support Layer Shell protocol. I think Gnome Wayland also doesn't support global shortcuts.

It is also not possible to hide and show window on Wayland in general. This could be solved by recreating a window each time but Iced has a 100% usage bug atm if no windows are present: iced-rs/iced#2719

It might be possible to support it by:

• Remove requirement for Layer Shell on Wayland and create a simple window
• Create custom Gnome plugin that will
  • On global shortcut show the window
  • Position window properly in the center and on top of everything (which is also not supported on wayland in general)
  • And properly hide the window if previously mentioned bug is not fixed

But this is currently a low priority

[marwanehab98]

I am running wayland yes, the global shortcut is not an issue if there's a command to show the window, since I can map the command to any shortcut I want anyway.