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# Using spmenu with GNOME
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The GNOME desktop environment works perfectly with spmenu if you are using an
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X11 session. If you're using a Wayland session however, it gets a little more
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complicated.
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GNOME, more specifically Mutter does not implement the wlr-layer-shell protocol
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spmenu and other programs like it use. According to them it's because that is
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not how GNOME is designed to work, so it's not the right place for this either.
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([#973](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/973)). This is very
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frustrating, and as a result spmenu cannot run as a native Wayland program on
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GNOME, it's not possible. Thanks GNOME.
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However, spmenu can still be used on Wayland using X11 and XWayland. If you're
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using a version of spmenu released after commit `ebd625ba1e`, spmenu will
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automatically check for GNOME Wayland based on whether the
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`$GNOME_SETUP_DISPLAY` variable is exported. If you're on an older version of
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spmenu or the variable just isn't set, you can open up
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`~/.config/spmenu/spmenu.conf` and set `protocol` to `0`, forcing X11 mode to
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be used.
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Thankfully, in X11 mode GNOME treats spmenu like an overlay anyway, unlike
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wlroots based compositors so running spmenu in XWayland likely isn't going to
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be noticeable, even if it's less than ideal. But hey, at least you get to keep
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some X11 specific features, which cannot be ported over to Wayland.
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