3 ms·
What Is Wayland on Linux, and How Is It Different from X? (2023)
- accrual 3y agoInstalled Ubuntu 23.10 on a new laptop but ran into some fractional scaling/high DPI issues with apps like Steam and Discord. Comments online suggested using Wayland, so I'm going to try out Fedora which uses Wayland by default. Came across this article and thought others might like a refresher on X11 vs Wayland.
- flohofwoe 3y agoUbuntu has enabled Wayland by default since version 21.04, so unless you explicitly opted into an X11 desktop session you are already on Wayland.
- reisse 3y agoWayland is not enabled by default if your system has Nvidia graphics card.
- fvdessen 3y agoIncredible, Is Nvidia still having issues with Wayland ? It has been, what, 10 years ?
- tapoxi 3y agoThey've been pushing for an alternative driver model (EGLStreams vs GBM) and only recently capitulated.
- pseudospock 3y agoWe continue to complain about it all the time... but like most Wayland heads, you stick it in the sand and ignore us and keep saying it's ready! :(
- tapoxi 3y agoSteam and Discord are both X11 apps, so switching to a Wayland session may not help much as they will still use X via XWayland. There may be a way to force Discord to use Wayland as its an Electron app. In general I've found KDE does a great job dealing with fractional scaling with XWayland apps, GNOME not so much. I'm using Fedora's KDE spin.
- jhallenworld 3y agoHere is a good history of X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-N-fgKWYGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-N-fgKWYGU
- tapoxi 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj02_UeUnGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj02_UeUnGQ is also good
- musicale 3y agoIt's like X11, but faster and buggier.
- musicale 3y agoDownvoted because it isn't actually faster.
- nilslindemann 3y agohttps://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277 https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d...