I’d like to make the Cinnamon Wayland session usable for me. Can somebody please help me with the following problems:
Keyboard layout is qwerty and I can’t find a way to change it to qwertz which is my hardware and what I’m used to. loadkeys de has no effect
gnome terminal background is completely transparent, which makes it unusable unless I minimize everything behind it.
the task bar shows a “desktop” entry like there was a window of that name, clicking it doesn’t do anything.
None of those problems exists when using a Cinnamon X11 session.
UPDATE: the 3rd problem with the “desktop” window vanished after switching from unstable to 24.05
UPDATE2: running nixos-rebuild switch temporarily fixes the 2nd problem with the transparent gnome-terminal background.
loadkeys takes only effect in the console if i am not mistaken. To set the layout in the graphical session you can set services.xserver.xkb.layout = "de"; (yes even on wayland).
Thank you for your reply!
I do have that config option set to “de”, it does works for other desktop environments but not for the experimental Cinnamon Wayland session.
I can’t give you a definitive answer on this, but my guess would be that transparency is not completely implemented yet in Cinnamon Wayland, in the sense that gnome-terminal may have some slight background transparency but cinnamon only supports either full or no transparency at the moment.
But as i said it’s only a guess from my side without any real evidence to support it and there may be others who can provide a solution.
Maybe try if other terminal emulators show the same behavior to narrow the reason down.