Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"

The first release candidate of the Sway 1.7 Wayland compositor is now available for testing...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sway-1.7-rc1

[RejectModernity]

"--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"

I lol'd IRL. But they should have named it "--nvidia-f*ck-you".

[mazumoto]

Hmmm, I'd say that "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" option was in fact more appropriatly named than the new one.
But hey - nobody can afford GPUs anyway these days, so maybe that's the reason there won't be a "next GPU"?

[Ironmask]

Best flag name ever

[Danny3]

If it weren't for Sway and KDE developers, Nvidia woul've never dropped their bullshit and start supporting GBM.
Too bad other developers, like Gnome ones bent over very quickly for Nvidia.
I applaud the developers who stood their ground agains shitty manufacturers!

[bple2137]

Too soon IMHO. NVIDIA Wayland support is still highly incomplete and we're not even sure if it's coming sooner than in next 5 years or so

[aufkrawall]

Too soon IMHO. NVIDIA Wayland support is still highly incomplete and we're not even sure if it's coming sooner than in next 5 years or so

It still might already help to find some bugs (mostly on the side of the NV driver ofc) now, opt-in doesn't hurt anyone. It's surely welcome to be frank about dumb issues of proprietary drivers, but let's not be fundamentalists.

[ehansin]

Not related to "eff nvidia", but serious question if anyone can help me out here

I'm running Sway on a minimal Fedora 35 install and trying to stay Wayland native for as much as I can (for many reasons, but scaling being big obvious difference.) The default Firefox package is starting for me on XWayland, though after installing the "firefox-wayland" package, I can just launch that. I can probably make better, and on a related note...

Chromium and VSCodium (built on Electron, which is built on Chromium) both can run Wayland native if I pass them these flags:
--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

But I have to do that on the command line. I don't know where I can just set these so I can launch from my launcher (using bemenu for now.) Can I set some variables for this (and if so where and how?)? Or do I modify the .desktop files? What is correct here? I can figure a lot of things out, but to be honest I am clueless here Any help appreciated -- thanks!

Btw, seeing the reference to the foot terminal being default on Sway 1.7, I found it is in the Fedora repos and installed that and set as my $term variable in the Sway config (was using alacritty.) So far so good as best I can tell.

[QwertyChouskie]

Not related to "eff nvidia", but serious question if anyone can help me out here

I'm running Sway on a minimal Fedora 35 install and trying to stay Wayland native for as much as I can (for many reasons, but scaling being big obvious difference.) The default Firefox package is starting for me on XWayland, though after installing the "firefox-wayland" package, I can just launch that. I can probably make better, and on a related note...

Chromium and VSCodium (built on Electron, which is built on Chromium) both can run Wayland native if I pass them these flags:
--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

But I have to do that on the command line. I don't know where I can just set these so I can launch from my launcher (using bemenu for now.) Can I set some variables for this (and if so where and how?)? Or do I modify the .desktop files? What is correct here? I can figure a lot of things out, but to be honest I am clueless here Any help appreciated -- thanks!

Btw, seeing the reference to the foot terminal being default on Sway 1.7, I found it is in the Fedora repos and installed that and set as my $term variable in the Sway config (was using alacritty.) So far so good as best I can tell.

Editing the .desktop via Menulibre is the easiest/best option.

[c117152]

The tab dragging ( https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/6219 ) is nice. Thanks.