Fix for Brave & Chrome work in XWayland / Wayland

fix-wayland-browsers.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Enable native Wayland support for Chromium-based browsers
# Tested on Arch Linux

set -e

FLAGS=(
"--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform"
"--ozone-platform=wayland"
"--enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer"
"--enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations"
"--disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1"
)

CONFIG_DIR="$HOME/.config"

apply_flags() {
    local browser=$1
    local file="$CONFIG_DIR/${browser}-flags.conf"

    if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
        echo "Backing up existing $file to ${file}.bak"
        mv "$file" "${file}.bak"
    fi

    echo "Applying Wayland flags to $file"
    for flag in "${FLAGS[@]}"; do
        echo "$flag" >> "$file"
    done
}

for browser in brave chrome chromium; do
    apply_flags "$browser"
done

echo "✅ Done! Restart your session and launch Brave/Chrome/Chromium to use Wayland natively."

fix-wayland-browsers_kalilinux.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Enable native Wayland support for Chromium-based browsers on Kali Linux
# Automatically edits .desktop files and reloads KDE menus

set -e

FLAGS="--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1"

echo "=== Detecting browsers installed on the system ==="

BROWSERS=(
    "chromium"
    "chromium-browser"
    "google-chrome-stable"
    "brave-browser"
)

for browser in "${BROWSERS[@]}"; do
    if command -v "$browser" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        echo "Found $browser"

        # Find its desktop file
        DESKTOP_FILE=$(grep -rl "Exec=.*$browser" /usr/share/applications 2>/dev/null || true)
        if [[ -z "$DESKTOP_FILE" ]]; then
            DESKTOP_FILE="$HOME/.local/share/applications/${browser}.desktop"
            mkdir -p "$(dirname "$DESKTOP_FILE")"
            echo "Creating new .desktop file for $browser at $DESKTOP_FILE"
            cat >"$DESKTOP_FILE" <<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=$browser
Comment=Web Browser
Exec=$browser %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
StartupNotify=true
EOF
        fi

        echo "Backing up existing .desktop file to ${DESKTOP_FILE}.bak"
        cp "$DESKTOP_FILE" "${DESKTOP_FILE}.bak"

        echo "Modifying Exec line to include Wayland flags"
        sudo sed -i "s|^Exec=.*|Exec=$browser $FLAGS %U|" "$DESKTOP_FILE"

        echo "✅ $browser updated with Wayland flags"
    fi
done

echo "=== Rebuilding KDE menus and icon cache ==="
kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental
kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell &

echo "✅ Done! Launch your browsers to use Wayland natively."