Wine's Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine's Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year

While now in the code freeze for Wine 8.0 as the next annual stable release of Wine for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, one of the features that didn't make it is the long in-development Wayland driver. Thankfully though the Wayland driver continues to mature and it looks like early next year following Wine 8.0 it might finally be upstreamed...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-2022

[risho]

wow it's way further along than i thought. will be great once it's finally in a place where people can actually start using it.

[TemplarGR]

Nice. Seems all we need is some more mature Wayland support from Firefox and Chromium and we can leave X11 behind for good.

[furtadopires]

Is there any upcoming work that people feel would be severely hindered by the upstreaming of the Wayland driver?

Other than the work of the religious anti-wayland people, who usually preach about how wayland is "totally unusable" and apparently "didn't progress anything" in all those years, I hope not

I'm personally looking forward for those patches to be mainlined, thank you Alexandros and all the devs who're helping him!

[shmerl]

Nice. Seems all we need is some more mature Wayland support from Firefox and Chromium and we can leave X11 behind for good.

I've been using Firefox with Wayland for a while. It's mostly OK. Chromimum also supports it, but I rarely use it.

[Nozo]

Welp, Wine should get full Wayland support for Wine 9 in 2024.

[archkde]

Nice. Seems all we need is some more mature Wayland support from Firefox and Chromium and we can leave X11 behind for good.

I'm curious what's missing for you. I'm running Firefox on Wayland without issues for over a year. And I just checked, when I start Chromium, it also runs on Wayland.

[chuckula]

I'm curious what's missing for you. I'm running Firefox on Wayland without issues for over a year. And I just checked, when I start Chromium, it also runs on Wayland.

Firefox is mostly good on Wayland although under Kwin clicking-and-dragging to tear out tabs into new windows is buggy.
Chromium under Wayland is generally OK if you are only using a 60 Hz display. It gets all kinds of glitches on high refresh rate monitors because it can't keep up with screen refresh rates of > 60Hz.

[caligula]

Firefox is mostly good on Wayland although under Kwin clicking-and-dragging to tear out tabs into new windows is buggy.
Chromium under Wayland is generally OK if you are only using a 60 Hz display. It gets all kinds of glitches on high refresh rate monitors because it can't keep up with screen refresh rates of > 60Hz.

Sometimes Firefox seems to become confused when switching between maxed/tiled mode and free floating. All the content will be rendered a bit off vertically, maybe 64 pixels or the size of the tab bar. You also need to switch between windows so that it redraws the window and the glitch disappears.

[V1tol]

Did they finally implement OpenGL support? I remember they said not so long ago about Vulkan (i.e. DXVK) apps only.