Tips & Tricks

Wayland Support

Vesktop runs as an X11 application by default. You can override this behaviour.

• If you are using Flatpak, open Flatseal and deny the X11 windowing system permission for Vesktop.
• If you are not using Flatpak, you can opt into Wayland by running vesktop with the --ozone-platform-hint=auto flag. To make this permanent, see Making Command line flags permanent.

GNOME Tray Icon

To enable the tray icon on GNOME, install the AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension

Making Command Line Flags Permanent

Locate Vesktop’s .desktop file.

locate -ib vesktop.desktop

It should usually be in /usr/share/applications/vesktop.desktop.

Open it with a text editor and add your flags to the Exec line, after the binary path and before the %U (if it exists).

Exec=/usr/bin/vesktop --ozone-platform-hint=auto %U

Enable Middle Click Auto Scroll

To enable middle click auto scroll, run Vesktop with the --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll flag. To make this permanent, see Making Command line flags permanent.

By default, this will conflict with the default Linux behaviour of pasting the clipboard contents when middle clicking. To change this behaviour:

• If you are running Vesktop in X11 (default), install and run XMousePasteBlock.
• If you are running Vesktop in Wayland, you might be able to disable it in your Desktop settings. On GNOME, you can disable it in Gnome Tweaks.