Hi, I’m having another problem with WhatsApp (at least it works now :D), where both on Floorp and FD, it deletes the first character if it isn’t a native English character. As someone whose first language is Portuguese (which has a lot valid reasons to start a phrase with É, Á, Ç, etc), that makes it very hard to type. It really is the first character, it works just fine is you start with a spacebar, then write normally in non-English.
I found this one solution at the manjaro forum, but it didn’t work for Garuda. I suspect it’s due to Arch or Floorp doing stuff differently, but I don’t know exactly what it does, nor how to fix it for my situation.
It could matter.
That suggested xim input method probably works only on x11. So, you could try to login to an x11 session at next login, using that setting (I have no idea if that works, or still works).
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The fix only works under X11 or Xwayland. You can run firedragon with WAYLAND_DISPLAY= environment override: GTK_IM_MODULE=xim WAYLAND_DISPLAY= /usr/lib/firedragon/firedragon.
To make this the default you can copy the desktop file from /usr/share/applications/firedragon.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/firedragon.desktop. And replace every occurrence of Exec=/usr/lib/firedragon/firedragon with Exec=env GTK_IM_MODULE=xim WAYLAND_DISPLAY= /usr/lib/firedragon/firedragon. Afterwards update desktop database with update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/. Now you can start FireDragon like always and it will run in Xwayland with XIM IM module.
Switched back to Wayland and Whatsapp won’t load at all, Discord takes a while to fetch messages, as well as Searx takes a while to load stuff…
It seems everything else is fine, tho, I’ll keep trying to switch back and forth, if you don’t hear from me, it didn’t work and everything is still lagging…
It seems my internet got really unstable right at the same time I changed the settings. Doesn’t make that much sense with what was happening, like changing workspaces was extremelly buggy and would bring the active tab on the selected workspace to the previous workspace, so I’d have one email tab in the social media workspace, but it does seem to work now, after a reboot, then changing it back to X11. Maybe I forgor the last step, but I didn’t do it after restarting either, and it works now :T
I’d still rather use Wayland for neatness purposes, but eh, if it works, it works.
If I run into problems, I’d like to report back here, so please don’t close the thread, but for now, I’ll mark Stefan’s comment as the solution, and keep testing things.
