Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by sprash on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:27PM
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> but it shouldn't stop us from trying to move forward,
Wayland means moving backwards. It has the complete wrong philosophy and abstractions. If "sway" runs flawlessly for you you are not doing much with your computer at all. I can't work without my fine tuned synaptics driver configuration and without my over the years grown and perfected scripts using xdotool, dmenu, xsel, xcape, xcalib and many other tiny but useful x-tools.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by dkersten on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:50PM
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So because it doesn't work for your workflow of scripts that rely on X, wayland is a step backwards and I must not be using my computer for much? Get over yourself.
> fine tuned synaptics driver configuration
My touchpad, touchscreen and apple magic trackpad work great for me, so this isn't a problem for me.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by sprash on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:13PM
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Wayland is power-user hostile. If all you do is watching cat videos all day long Wayland will be great for you.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by kaba0 on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:10PM
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Well, it actually do allows watching videos at all without tearing everywhere, which was not possible on X without a compositor.
Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
by anoncake on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:33AM
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It is obviously not possible on Wayland without a compositor either?
This is always the case when there is some widely used legacy tech, but it shouldn't stop us from trying to move forward, or we'll never get better things.
I've personally switched to using wayland on my main laptop and am very happy with it. I was using X before and was getting incredibly bad screen tearing when using i3, I tried every recommendation I could find (double buffering, running a compositor, etc) and nothing helped, but Sway on wayland fixed it for me and its been running flawlessly for the last 9 months. I have no plans of going back to X anytime. The only thing I use X for is playing Windows games with Proton (which this HW acceleration change might even fix, if the laptop had an nvidia gpu, but alas, it does not).