SDL2 On Linux Now Prefers Wayland Over X11

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SDL2 On Linux Now Prefers Wayland Over X11

With today's SDL2 Git, Wayland is now preferred over X.Org/X11 by default without having to set the SDL video driver environment variable...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SDL2-Prefers-Wayland

[tildearrow]

Hmmm... Dear ImGui doesn't work well on Wayland yet...

[Myownfriend]

Hopefully they'll Pipewire over Pulse for their audio next.

[Quackdoc]

Man, Im excited lets see what other wayland goodies we get this month

[ernstp]

I put libdecor and SDL in a ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/wayland

For a Steam game you can set

SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 %command%

to override SDL.

[pkunk]

Hopefully they'll Pipewire over Pulse for their audio next.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1835

[StarterX4]

Yeah, while most of Valve games (like L4D2 or TF2) don't work natively under Wayland, even through SDL_DYNÀMIC_API, and Valve isn't going to update those de facto abandoned titles.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

Yeah, while most of Valve games (like L4D2 or TF2) don't work natively under Wayland, even through SDL_DYNÀMIC_API, and Valve isn't going to update those de facto abandoned titles.

maybe they will support it in half-life 3 ?

[er888kh]

Hopefully they'll Pipewire over Pulse for their audio next.

What benefit would it bring to the user? (Genuine question.) I guess if the old interface works just fine and is going to be well-supported in pipewire anyway, there is no point in writing a new audio backend.

[Myownfriend]

What benefit would it bring to the user? (Genuine question.) I guess if the old interface works just fine and is going to be well-supported in pipewire anyway, there is no point in writing a new audio backend.

SDL2 already supports using Pipewire as an audio backend, it's just doesn't default to it if PW is available. By using the native backend it allows the application to use Pipewire without having to go through pipewire-pulse and it's always nice to avoid campatability layers when you can.