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Maybe this is a Gnome issue? I've been using sway as my main driver for 2 (?) years now and I don't encounter any of the issues that you see. I'm running with

Maybe this is a Gnome issue? I've been using sway as my main driver for 2 (?) years now and I don't encounter any of the issues that you see. I'm running with firefox and most other apps forced to wayland and was actually surprised how easy it was. The main issues I encounter are about screen sharing. At the moment it does not work for wayland apps (i.e. wayland apps don't show up in the share this). Supposedly there is a way around it, but I've not yet needed to investigate. The other issue is OBS not working (I guess also because of screensharing). And the third issue is some weird bug in Zoom, where if I open the participant or chat window, it becomes extremely laggy. So much so that I can't really type in the chat window because there is such a strong lag, that I finished typing before the word appears. Similarly the video feed becomes choppy. One other issue was that Pycharm was having issue opening some menus/windows but that seems to have been fixed now.

turminal 6y ago
> Maybe this is a Gnome issue? Definitely a Gnome issue.
CarelessExpert 6y ago
> Maybe this is a Gnome issue? I actually listed a range of issues. Some are in Gnome. Others are in KDE. Yet others are in the toolkits (e.g. the Qt popup menu problem). And still others are in the applications themselves (e.g. Firefox has a whole menu of Wayland-specific bugs).
- igneo676 6y ago
  I had a ton of issues with QT menus until the latest patches from KDE hit Arch's QT packages. Fixed them
  - floatboth 6y ago
    Ooh! Interesting! Will look at these. So far I've reported a couple Qt bugs, well, they got priorities but no fix so far: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87303 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87303 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87332 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87332 If KDE patches actually make menus work okay, that's great. I've been wondering how KDE deals with the bugginess of the wayland QPA, turns out the answer's simple and not KDE-exclusive, nice. upd: seems like no popup constraint adjustment is set on the kde/5.15 branch. Hopefully there are other improvements though…
albertzeyer 6y ago
There was an update for OBS recently, which sounds like it fixed the Wayland issues. https://feaneron.com/2021/03/30/obs-studio-on-wayland/ https://feaneron.com/2021/03/30/obs-studio-on-wayland/
nvarsj 6y ago
I like sway a lot, but I also encountered many bugs with its implementation. For example, it's drag and drop and focus switching randomly breaks when interacting with Xwayland windows. It also breaks resume/suspend if you have multiple GPUs. I finally went back to pure X11 and everything just works and is snappy. I miss the Wayland tear-free experience though.
- ubercow13 6y ago
  The focus switching thing should be fixed in the new 1.6 version
kaba0 6y ago
Pipewire will solve I believe the last major blocker for wayland. I believe OBS already has a pipewire-aware version, and both firefox and chrome (with a bit of tinkering in settings) supports it.

turminal 6y ago

> Maybe this is a Gnome issue? Definitely a Gnome issue.

CarelessExpert 6y ago

> Maybe this is a Gnome issue? I actually listed a range of issues. Some are in Gnome. Others are in KDE. Yet others are in the toolkits (e.g. the Qt popup menu problem). And still others are in the applications themselves (e.g. Firefox has a whole menu of Wayland-specific bugs).

igneo676 6y ago
I had a ton of issues with QT menus until the latest patches from KDE hit Arch's QT packages. Fixed them
- floatboth 6y ago
  Ooh! Interesting! Will look at these. So far I've reported a couple Qt bugs, well, they got priorities but no fix so far: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87303 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87303 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87332 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87332 If KDE patches actually make menus work okay, that's great. I've been wondering how KDE deals with the bugginess of the wayland QPA, turns out the answer's simple and not KDE-exclusive, nice. upd: seems like no popup constraint adjustment is set on the kde/5.15 branch. Hopefully there are other improvements though…

albertzeyer 6y ago

There was an update for OBS recently, which sounds like it fixed the Wayland issues. https://feaneron.com/2021/03/30/obs-studio-on-wayland/ https://feaneron.com/2021/03/30/obs-studio-on-wayland/

nvarsj 6y ago

I like sway a lot, but I also encountered many bugs with its implementation. For example, it's drag and drop and focus switching randomly breaks when interacting with Xwayland windows. It also breaks resume/suspend if you have multiple GPUs. I finally went back to pure X11 and everything just works and is snappy. I miss the Wayland tear-free experience though.

ubercow13 6y ago
The focus switching thing should be fixed in the new 1.6 version

kaba0 6y ago

Pipewire will solve I believe the last major blocker for wayland. I believe OBS already has a pipewire-aware version, and both firefox and chrome (with a bit of tinkering in settings) supports it.