Wine 11 can run native wayland
no idea if this is a recent development, but stumbled upon the info. you can run wine games on wayland directly, as opposed to the default, running it through Xwayland translation.
what you need to do is clear the DISPLAY variable. I use lutris, so I add it like so:
mangohud reports "wayland", without the line it's "xwayland", so it works. the results for the few games I play are awesome - no resolution issues, no alt-tab glitchings, no launch multiple times before it starts... didn't run any benchmarks as it's already maxed out at 60 fps on Ultra. but so far, very cool!
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Yeah, they've been working on that for a while now. 10 was the first version with preliminary support and it's getting better and better. My guess is we'll see it as the default in 12 or 13.
Hopefully Steam will get native Wayland support as well. Gaming Mode on the Steam Deck is a Wayland compositor that starts two XWayland instances, one for Steam and one for the game.
The upstream Proton versions have had it in place for awhile, but they need to make and deploy client changes for the defaults. From the change log, I'm guessing they've been prepping initial support for the new hardware coming out, but no announcements yet.
Gamescope, the weird microcompositer they use to do that, can be configured to use wayland clients instead of x11
thank you for sharing, I wasn't aware
holy crap I need more coffee........ I read the title as "windows 11 can run Wayland"
and was subsequently both horrendously confused, and incredibly impressed LOL
with WSL it runs X11, I'm curious if they'll ever port wayland to WSL. Probably a lot harder to do than X11.
My understanding is that since WSL version 2 (publicly launched a few years ago I think) it comes with a wayland implementation built-in, and it uses xwayland to run X11 compatible apps. At least if you are using a compatible image.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wslg-architecture/
fingers crossed
(sorry these are my engagement replies when I have nothing more to say, got the habbit from YouTube)
You don't have to explain yourself. Atp any kind of engagement is good for lemmy 😕.