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Wayland Issues

Some applications need to be told that they are running on Wayland

Java Applications

are allergic to wayland and need to have reparenting windows disabled

You can set this value in your /etc/environment

_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

Firefox in Wayland Mode

Warning

Toolbars like bookmarks are broken on the native Wayland version of Firefox

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

QT apps

To enable the QT-wayland plugin add this to your environment

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
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