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Firefox native support is pretty much here already (I've been using it for quite a time now and it works really well). The only missing piece that is not merged
by boudin 6y ago
Firefox native support is pretty much here already (I've been using it for quite a time now and it works really well). The only missing piece that is not merged yet is screen sharing unfortunately. It's available on Fedora's Firefox build.
All GTK3 apps runs well on Wayland too.
Qt apps runs well but it doesn't feel as polished (I mainly have issues when I use 2 screen with different scaling).
The last big things are chromium and electron. Once those have ozone merged and enabled in stable, it's gonna be a massive step forward. Those are the last apps I can't run natively on wayland. Ozone is in the beta branches now so, hopefully, it will happen next year.
After, it's not that much of a big deal to run those on xwayland as long there's no scaling. As soon as you're on a hidpi screen or just use scaling, it's when it becomes blurry and is quite annoying.
I personally still prefer wayland over x because the experience is just better. No flickering, it's smooth and feels more snappy.
- simcop2387 6y agoBased on my somewhat limited testing, the qt stuff is much better with qt 5.15, which is a very new release (and what kde plasma 5.20 is based on).
- vetinari 6y agoIt is blurry only if you have fractional scaling enabled (enabled is enough, even if you use integer scale). With fractional scaling disabled, even xwayland apps are sharp.
- cesarb 6y ago> The only missing piece that is not merged yet is screen sharing unfortunately. It's available on Fedora's Firefox build. In my experience, it doesn't work yet; Firefox can select the IDE window (though you have to select it twice for some reason), and I can see the shared screen on my side (so the Wayland part seems to be working fine, since Firefox can get the window contents), but to my coworkers it appears frozen (they don't see any changes I make to that IDE window). I don't know if it's a bug in Firefox or a bug in Google Meet.
- horsawlarway 6y agoYup, I've been running the ozone AUR release of chromium for a while, and outside of a couple remaining rough spots (mainly menus used for extension development/debugging) it's been great. I run a 4k display and a 1920x1080 display side by side, and X is utter garbage at handling it.
- alacombe 6y ago> I run a 4k display and a 1920x1080 display side by side, and X is utter garbage at handling it. I'm running 3 physical monitors, split to 4 "virtual" monitors with overall 3 different resolutions and I have no problem whatsoever (minus dealing with nouveau on 1060).