Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
by tmtvl on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:56AM
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Desktop mode on the Steam Deck uses X11. I think that's why the brightness control is fucked up (ever notice how the brightness is always 40% when you switch to desktop mode?). You can manually switch it to Wayland, but Steam input is broken under Wayland (or at least it was last time I checked, which is admittedly half a year ago or something).
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Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
by kps on Friday March 20, 2026 @09:43AM
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> input is broken under Wayland
Drop the ‘Steam’, it's cleaner. Wayland's raison d'etre is to push frame buffers without tearing. Input is an afterthought.
Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
by tmtvl on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:14AM
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That's odd, I'm using Wayland on my desktop and, for example, Japanese input works 問題ない. Then again, I haven't tried every possible input method/peripheral in existence, so I may just be the one in [some arbitrary large number] who lucked out.
Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
by tliltocatl on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:51PM
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> Input is an afterthought
This. You need more than graphics to have a windowing system. Wayland team threw out X11, did graphics and left the rest for the others to figure out.