I keep trying to use Wayland, but it never fully works. Everyone keeps saying how well the highdpi stuff works, but then it really only works for a subset of things. For the rest it's actually worse than Xorg.
Multiscreen is Xorg is kinda mushy so I thought maybe Wayland fixes it, but no it doesn't.
Wayland is now 12 years old and everything is still half-baked.
It quotes an intel developer saying they don't want to do any more stuff on Xorg. But the reality is that as much as I admire intels open source contributions. I don't remember a time where all the features in the Intel driver actually fully worked. But sure, maybe it's an Xorg issue, or they don't know how to do release management.
Either way, Wayland doesn't seem to solve the problems it promised to fix.
> I keep trying to use Wayland, but it never fully works. Everyone keeps saying how well the highdpi stuff works
I use Wayland daily and have for a few years. It’s clearly gotten better, and I rarely encounter problems. I do have my load of applications still running in XWayland though.
But yes. Support for varying DPI in my multi-monitor setup is handled much better on Wayland than on X11. I would say much better than on Windows too.
How's the forced v-sync? I assume all games run XWayland, which makes it a non-issue. (Otherwise, it'd presumably be an FPS hit in a world where adaptive sync [like G-SYNC but not really FreeSync since the latter doesn't really work in Linux lol] makes tearing a thing of the past and obviates v-sync entirely.)
Also, can you use xdotool for key input redirection or screen capture programs and stuff yet?
Not sure what you're talking about. Haven't noticed any adverse negative effects.
It's super nice to have a desktop without any tearing though.
> I assume all games run XWayland, which makes it a non-issue.
I don't do PC-gaming.
> Also, can you use xdotool for key input redirection
Not sure what xdotool is.
I'm using sway[1] with libinput. I haven't had a need to use external tools beyond what they support natively.
> or screen capture programs and stuff yet?
I have no issues to do screenshots ad-hoc (in fact, I have keybindings to do this, and throw it right in the wayland clipboard).
I do notice that most Xwayland-based programs which tries to do screen-sharing fails spectacularly though.