I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.

I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.

  •  Nyanix   ( @Nyanix@lemmy.ca ) 
    17•1 year ago

    I’m thankful they’re finally doing something about vsync, but I’m still going to need the option for preventing app sleep when outside of viewport. It sounds like an odd complaint, but it means not being able to have a game on one virtual desktop and its wiki on the other. It means not being able to let music run while I’m working on another computer. It’s running better, and I’m glad to see it starting to play nicer with Nvidia, but not quite ready to make the leap 100%

      •  Nyanix   ( @Nyanix@lemmy.ca ) English
        1•1 year ago

        Interesting! I wonder if it’s a Wayland on KDE-specific thing. I’d read it as a security and efficiency feature of Wayland’s, where it suspends applications that are not in the viewport. An example case is that I’m playing FFXIV on virtual desktop 1. On virtual desktop 2, I have whatever thing I’m looking up or collecting in the browser. While I’m on virtual desktop 2, it suspends the game on desktop 1, which wouldn’t be a big issue in single player games as much, but in games that call to a server, like FFXIV or Overwatch, it disconnects you from the server.
        I was able to get around this by using Windowed Fullscreen and turning on Caffeine so that my computer wouldn’t sleep, but the turn screen off feature also changes the viewport, so I’ve had to disable that feature entirely.
        Then I work from home, my home computer is hooked up to the sound system, so I’ll play music through it, but then be on my work computer next to it. I’d like my computer to still black the screen and lock, but the moment it does either, viewport changes, music cuts off.
        If it’s viewed as a security feature, then the fix should not to have to be preventing your screen from going off or locking. I’d loooove the ability to set certain apps from suspending when not in the viewport. Bonus points if it’s one of the features added to gamemoderun

        •  2xsaiko   ( @2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ) English
          2•1 year ago

          I’m using Plasma Wayland as well. Games do do that where they minimize on focus loss but I’m pretty sure they did that on X11 as well (especially since they mostly are using Xwayland) and I haven’t had any connection problems in multiplayer games when tabbed out. I’d have to see if your problem happens for me with virtual desktops, I rarely use them. And the music thing doesn’t happen at all, the screen locks and turns off and music/the youtube video/whatever keeps playing as normal.

          What distro are you using? I’d chalk these problems up to a distro bug…

          •  Nyanix   ( @Nyanix@lemmy.ca ) English
            1•1 year ago

            Huh, I didn’t realize others weren’t having these impacts, because Xorg doesn’t have these issues for me, it’s just as soon as I move over to Wayland. I’m on the infamous Manjaro, though I had the same issues on EndeavourOS

  •  kixik   ( @kixik@lemmy.ml ) 
    13•1 year ago

    What I’m missing from wayland, it’s not really something from wayland itself. Examples are several needed electron based applications, which some will refuse to properly work (for meetings, desktop sharing, etc), wine, gtk4 applications not respecting GDK_DPI_SCALE (not sure if already addressed) when not using gnome (wayfire being used as compositor), no proper support for conky (or eventually equivalent wayland functionality) yet, and several nuances with waybar, and some other tools. Major issue is my work dependency over some non floss electron binary blobs, like teams, slack, and so on, which particularly for desktop sharing and meetings don’t yet work properly, no matter the electron options one can use for them, and some floss I use like signal, freetube, jitsi. Wine has a horrible hack, which I might live with, but it’s horrible…

    So I’ll have to wait further for non wayland stuff to truly support wayland, and it has taken ages for that to happen, :(

    I haven’t tried labwc, andit sounds interesting, though I don’t like openbox configs, and I really love fluxbox ways, which are also text files, but I never got used to openbox configs, perhaps just because I got way too familiar with fluxbox, which is what I use with Xorg (fluxbox + picom + tint2 + conky).

  •  Spunkie   ( @spunkie@lemmy.ml ) 
    5•1 year ago

    Can’t be that good. I did a kde archinstall on a friends desktop just last week, 2070super with proprietary drivers, and wayland crashes on login. T_T

    I’ve been using wayland for years but I’m running AMD.

      •  TamiTech   ( @Tami@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
        3•1 year ago

        The linux desktop experience in current day is honestly incredible to use. as long as you keep team green as far away from your hardware as possible. Not worth the headache to deal with Nvidia in my personal experience

        •  Gatsby   ( @Gatsby@lemm.ee ) 
          2•1 year ago

          I use Nvidia and I haven’t really had any problems myself.

          Arch based system running a Nvidia Quadro card, then I have a 3080ti disabled on boot from Linux that’s passed through to VM’s.

          Even passing it through to an arch based VM doesn’t give me any issues.

          But that’s just my personal experience as well