using the tla-toolbox on wayland

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Marko Schuetz-Schmuck

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Oct 2, 2025, 1:12:39 PM (2 days ago) Oct 2
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Dear All,

not having used the toolbox in a while and coming back to it just now, I
found that the GUI on my current machine was unusable (huge icons,
overlapping text lines, etc.).

After some digging I found that this is a problem with eclipse-based (or
even java-based?) applications on wayland. One workaround that I found
and that I'm going to use for now is to force the JRE to use xwayland
like this:

GDK_BACKEND=x11 tla-toolbox&

I hope this will help someone else here to save some time...

Best regards,

Marko
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Steve Kimani

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Oct 2, 2025, 2:30:24 PM (2 days ago) Oct 2
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i was wondering how one could use tla plus on vim and then i realised that i have to configure lsp until i found that i could only use a parser 

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Andrew Helwer

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Oct 2, 2025, 6:42:22 PM (2 days ago) Oct 2
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I mostly use neovim to write TLA+, with the tree-sitter-tlaplus grammar for highlighting. Syntax errors are identified when the highlighting becomes weird. A poor substitute for a good LSP, but it works well enough for me!

I know Karolis has been working on a LSP based on TLAPM, which the VS Code extension uses. I haven’t tried plugging it into neovim but it seems worth trying.

Andrew Helwer

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