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The original was posted on /r/gnome by /u/serhiii_m on 2025-10-15 14:20:17+00:00.

In GNOME 49, the X11 session is disabled by default and there is only a Wayland session, so most likely those who used GNOME with X11 and want to continue using this desktop environment will have to switch to Wayland. I switched to Wayland several years ago, but I am still looking for extensions and commands that will replace X11 functions that are missing in Wayland. Let’s collect such extensions in this post. I’ll start:

• The xkill command can be replaced with the Logo Menu extension, which has a Force Quit App option that allows you to click on the window you need to close.
• The xcell command, which was used to emulate pbcopy/pbpaste functionality from MacOS, can be replaced with wl-copy and wl-paste commands.
• To hide the mouse cursor during inactivity, as was done using unclutter-xfixes, you can use the Hide Cursor extension.
• To restore window sizes and positions if you have multiple monitors, when locking and unlocking the screen, you can use the Window State Manager extension
• If you have more than three keyboard layouts and the Alt+Shift switching configuration in xkb doesn’t work for you, then you can use the RX Input Layout Switcher extension.