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Is there something you lack in Wayland but have in xorg? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] brian 14 points 10 months ago (24 children)

This is just misinformed.

Sure your favorite apps may not use it, but Wayland does provide protocols for drawing things over other apps. https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1

I never used guake with i3 since scratchpads exist and are the general solution, and sway works fine there.

and there's plenty of screenshot apps that work. I haven't tried gnome-screenshot, but I find it hard to believe that it or some alternative gnome one doesn't work given the effort the project has put into Wayland

nvidia support isn't great but it is getting better. I haven't bought nvidia in forever but I know plasma and gnome both say they have support for Wayland on nvidia now.

For gaming amd is great, for real work I'd just rent time on some cloud service lol. If I'm that worried about performance my one consumer gpu isn't going to make a dent either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

He's wrong all of this works on Wayland.

I used a 3080 on Wayland and the only thing that didn't work was night light (red tint mode). At this time nvidia-open was marked as not viable for desktop. In 6.7 noveau has gsp support so the open source path has improved rapidly.

It was shortly after their hack that they announced partnership with RedHat / Canonical devs to make their graphics driver better. It's going to have a similar arch to how the AMD drive is under the name nvidia-open. However the proprietary driver does work on Wayland at this point in time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Night mode doesn't work on Wayland? 💀

[–] brian 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the one built in to plasma does, haven't tried any others

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What about redshift?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No, redshift is an xorg application. It likely will become obsolete.

Night mode is in the compositor now.

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