I am aware of the switches you can pass to each app to make it use native wayland, but is there any way to do it globally?

  • @[email protected]
    1•5 months ago

    I have not checked this, but as far as I know

    • performance: apps are running on a subset of XOrg and xWayland translates it to Wayland
    • RAM: if you have no XWayland apps anymore you save RAM
    • features: some apps may have more features on XOrg, some may have more on Wayland. OBS on XWayland can record keystrokes, QGis on XWayland has not broken dockable toolbars.
    • RustmilianEnglish
      2•5 months ago
      • performance: apps are running on a subset of XOrg and xWayland translates it to Wayland

      “translates it to Wayland” is not correct, XWayland is an X server that runs on Wayland, not a translation layer.

      • RAM: if you have no XWayland apps anymore you save RAM

      True. 👍

      • features: some apps may have more features on XOrg, some may have more on Wayland. OBS on XWayland can record keystrokes, QGis on XWayland has not broken dockable toolbars.

      OBS on Wayland can record keystrokes too, it just that Global hotkeys can be problematic on KDE and requires a work around.

        • RustmilianEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          It does not “translate” or convert X11 windows, but rather forwards them as is over wayland input devices as Wayland surfaces to the underlying Wayland compositor.
          Xwayland server still runs the same code as the regular X server, but relies on the Wayland compositor for presentation and composition of the X11 windows.
          “translation” suggests conversion of X11 API calls or other code, which is not happening here.

          https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html