Linux Specifics

Session Type (X11 vs Wayland)

MiniMeters will automatically select a session type by reading the XDG_SESSION_TYPE environment variable. If you would like to force a specific session type simply run MiniMeters like so:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 ./MiniMeters.AppImage

...Or for Wayland:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland ./MiniMeters.AppImage

If for some reason you need to keep the XDG_SESSION_TYPE environment variable set, perhaps due to a window manager limitation, you can also set the MINIMETERS_SESSION_TYPE environment variable.

Limitations

• Wayland does now allow Wayland clients (such as MiniMeters) to set the position of a window. MiniMeters will attempt to use the wlr-layer-shell extension to present MiniMeters as a toolbar, but if this is unavailable MiniMeters will not be able to save and restore MiniMeters' position. In this case, if you do not need fractional scaling support on Linux I would recommend using X11 as your XDG_SESSION_TYPE in MiniMeters.