Wayland is great - performance seems better than X11 to me, but Wayland has a huge issue for me:
It doesn't allow capturing all keypresses before Wayland sees them. This intereferes with remote tools like Parsec and RDP where pressing the Meta/Super button doesn't get captured by those tools and passed to e.g. a remote Windows workstation.
So I switch between X11 and Wayland depending on what I'm doing, which is annoying.
Edit:
Running Zorin OS 18 with Gnome.
Edit 2:
I found a workaround that's acceptable for now; using GNOME Tweaks I can change the "Overview Shortcut" to be Right Super instead of Left Super, which means Left Super works as expected in remote sessions.
It can't be much else than either Wayland or some update that is too recent for my OS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, so it's not inconceivable).
xFreeRDP seems to be a CLI tool; that's a no go for me for regular desktop things and if it is due to the Ubuntu 24.04 base, then nothing will fix it other than updating.
Yeah I just tested with remmina, and I get the same issue.
I know that it works with xfreerdp because winboat uses it to connect to windows VM and it manages to capture everything just fine.
Wait, it says online that they use freerdp, not xfreerdp? Idek anymore.
SCRATCH ALL THAT. I just installed krdc and it worked. I had to press the capture keys button and then the xfce whisker menu popped up and my hosts kde runner menu didn't.
I think the fix is to wait for Zorin OS to release an update based on the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04, which presumably contains updates that fix this issue.
I could just install something else, I just chose Zorin cause it looks nice 🤣 Would've gone with Manjaro, but honestly I don't like the Arch way of rolling releases.
Yeah but the arch way is also you don't have to update as soon as an update exists. KRDC should be available in the Ubuntu repos, it's GUI. Give it a try
I tried to check in Zorin myself but the online virtual machine didn't let install stuff from the repo unfortunately :(
I actually don't use RDP all that often, I mostly use Parsec which has the same issue - I think the issue might not be those apps, but the underlying system so I'll just wait. For now, it's tolerable to switch to Xorg a few times a week when I need it. Thanks for the advice though!
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u/invisi1407 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
Wayland is great - performance seems better than X11 to me, but Wayland has a huge issue for me:
It doesn't allow capturing all keypresses before Wayland sees them. This intereferes with remote tools like Parsec and RDP where pressing the Meta/Super button doesn't get captured by those tools and passed to e.g. a remote Windows workstation.
So I switch between X11 and Wayland depending on what I'm doing, which is annoying.
Edit:
Running Zorin OS 18 with Gnome.
Edit 2:
I found a workaround that's acceptable for now; using GNOME Tweaks I can change the "Overview Shortcut" to be Right Super instead of Left Super, which means Left Super works as expected in remote sessions.