Hey y’all
So I’ve been a big anti-Wayland shill around here but decided to finally give it a shot, I installed Debian 12 with GNOME, and can’t seem to get Plank working.
Without the Plank dock, GNOME is unusable, and KDE refuses to autostart Guake (does not save the setting in autostart), and when it works it seems broken (stuck to the left side of the screen).
These are fundamental apps to me for any decent Linux laptop use. What gives? Is there an alternative?
Dash-to-Plank specifically says it does not support Wayland. Plank has had an issue open about Wayland support since 2016, and they still haven’t done it. Can’t blame Wayland.
What’s your use case for Plank? My guess is you’re using GNOME wrong.
What is Dash-to-Plank? I just use Plank the dock app.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/
I use this and its worked great
Just echoing what others said, Plank does not run on Wayland. You can install the “Dash to Dock” Gnome extension for a very similar experience (minus widgets). If using KDE, consider replacing Guake (which is GTK) with Yakuake (Qt).
You could try Yakuake instead of Guake in KDE?
Sure! Is it missing any features from Guake, or is it just some clone fork?
Pretty sure Yakuake is the OG?
Well, technically the OG would be Quake, but Yakuake did come before Guake.
Yeah fair point
I’m afraid that I’ve never used either Guake or Yakuake so I don’t know either of their feature sets 😁
Neither is a fork of the other, but Yakuake came first. I assume it has more features, since that’s how it usually goes with KDE apps vs GNOME apps. Haven’t tried Guake, tho.
You might try Dash to Dock also:
Plank would need to be rewritten
