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People are saying this is Zoom's fault. Maybe it is. However I've given up on Wayland entirely and just gone back to X11. I frequently need to record my screen
by YEwSdObPQT 5y ago
People are saying this is Zoom's fault. Maybe it is. However I've given up on Wayland entirely and just gone back to X11.
I frequently need to record my screen to show bugs or fixes in features. Most of the open source screen recording software seems to only support X11. I've tried quite a few different open source alternatives (other than the built Gnome Screen recorder which is kinda hidden in a keyboard short-cut and it absolutely useless as I have to crop the video afterwards).
Slack and Discord can't share the whole screen. Not much of an issue with Discord. But with Slack sometimes I need to demo my whole screen and it doesn't work with Wayland enabled in Gnome.
So this isn't a problem just for zoom. It seems other software has problems with this as well.
Also with Wayland I have weird issues when using a browser (doesn't matter which one I've tried them all) if the memory usage on my dev machine goes up over 32gb (I have 64GB installed). Wayland starts to slow down. Windows seems to start becomes randomly unresponsive and scrolling keeps hitching. It isn't the CPU time because I ran top and the CPU usage was fine.
Before anyone tells me not to use a Nvidia card or Do I have the right drivers installed etc. I am using kernel 5.10 on debian 11 (bullseye) and I have a AMD 6800XT. I have the correct firmware installed and I played Rise of the Tomb Raider (linux native games) recently at 4k with absolutely no problems (I have one crash in 40 hours of gameplay). So it not the card or the drivers.
I've basically given up using Wayland. The only issue I've had was screen tearing in Dark Souls 3 and a few other games that were being played via proton and that was solved by enabling TearFree in an Xorg conf file.
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amd.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
People keep on saying Wayland is better, X11 is rubbish. But I frequently find the opposite. I know there are security issues. But I need the full screen record and I've tried almost everything and none of the software (open or proprietary) I've tried works properly with Wayland.
- throwdbaaway 5y agoHave you tried running slack as a tab in chrome/chromium/firefox? I just started doing that very recently on wayland, and it seems to work fine.
- YEwSdObPQT 5y agoI don't really want to run a messenger in a web browser. I know it is electron and is running an instance of chromium, but I want a separate application.