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tl;dr: Right now, Wine doesn't work on Wayland compositors (this was news to me!). If you're using Wine on Wayland today, it's running through XWayland, which i
by chaorace 6y ago
tl;dr: Right now, Wine doesn't work on Wayland compositors (this was news to me!). If you're using Wine on Wayland today, it's running through XWayland, which is essentially a X11 => Wayland shim. This article is about the new RFC to implement native Wayland in Wine, which would eliminate the need for such a shim.
- tremon 6y agoShouldn't the article be called "Wine on Wayland" instead of "Wayland on Wine" then? I was really confused by the headline.
- loudmax 6y agoAgreed. This naming approach reminds me very much of the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
- ravenstine 6y agoThey just want their name to come first. ;) Besides, it has a nice ring to it! wink wink
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- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoI think that one's motivated by trademark rules.
- pzone 6y agoIt’s a typo, the original article is correct
- exciteabletom 6y agoTo me that name makes sense. It is a Windows Subsystem that adds support for Linux
- cptnapalm 6y agoTo myself, Windows Subsystem for Linux sounded like a Windows subsystem for Linux.
- mfilion 6y agoUpdated :)
- scaladev 6y agoThis is really tangential to the topic, but does anybody know of any decent performance comparisons between Xwayland and plain X? I saw some talks made by Xorg developers (Keith Packard and others) from ~2012 or so, where they speculated that running Xwayland should be more performant than plain X due to less memory copying and less context switches, but could not find actual tests (and am too incompetent to do it myself.)
- shmerl 6y agoI tested The Witcher 3 in the KDE Plasma Wayland session (Wine / XWayalnd, dxvk, radv). I didn't notice any performance degradation or major difference, so I'd say it works very well for games at least. The only gotcha was the need to use 3 backbuffers for Vulkan (in dxvk config), otherwise framerate was capped at monitor refresh rate by KWin.
- thayne 6y ago> Right now, Wine doesn't work on Wayland compositors (this was news to me!) No, it doesn't work natively on wayland. It does work using Xwayland, as do many other applications that haven't been ported to wayland. There are some cases where Xwayland doesn't work, though, and those will likely be the toughest things to deal with when adding wayland support as well. It's quite possible this will result in changes to wayland protocols.
- chaorace 6y agoDid... you stop reading my comment halfway through? I don't understand why you're correcting me with information that's literally in the following sentence.