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Re:Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux by dtx1 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:35PM (#26414438)
* Security Benefits, maybe!

* No more screen tearing

* Multiple Displays with multiple different refresh rates, on some compositors (sway can do it!)

* HWVideo Acceleration for firefox (on some setups)

* it can be faster in some situations

* In the future: More likely support for HDR, VRR etc.

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Re:Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux by babypuncher on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:03PM (#26414784)
> Multiple Displays with multiple different refresh rates, on some compositors (sway can do it!)

Does this mean we can get VRR on our primary display without having to completely disable other monitors when playing games?

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Re:Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux by dtx1 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:18PM (#26414957)
Try it, it could potentially work in Sway, i don't have a VRR card but multiple refresh rates on different displays works there
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Re:Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux by vially on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:44PM (#26415956)
Yes, I've been doing this on sway for a couple of months now without any issues.
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Re:Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux by gspr on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:52PM (#26414644)
Nice bonus I didn't expect when moving to Wayland: my touchpad magically started behaving waaaay more nicely.
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