XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows

The second release candidate of XWayland 23.2 is now available that restores an earlier performance optimization around depth 24 windows...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-23.2-RC2

[dimko]

That's the protocol right?
Will prolly take years before it makes into KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc...

[aufkrawall]

Are you referring to tearing support? KWin supports it already, just two Mesa MRs keep sitting there unmerged (sigh):

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/65

[Myownfriend]

That's the protocol right?
Will prolly take years before it makes into KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc...

Just to add to what aufkrawall said, additions to Wayland need 3 implementations before they can be merged into the protocol. KDE was one of them, the other two were gamescope, and Mesa's Vulkan WSI. This would be the fourth.

Gnome intends to add support for it after they merge VRR.

[MastaG]

I wonder how all of this years work to XWayland, mesa and the linux kernel will affect the Steam Deck.
The improvements come in so fast lately, it's hard to keep up.
Also excited for wayland support for wine getting squared away early next year, I hope it won't take long before it gets merged into Proton.

[Kjell]

Soon 🙏

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/1880

[cynic]

That's the protocol right?
Will prolly take years before it makes into KDE/Gnome/XFCE/etc...

nope.

this is the layer that allows X application to run on top of a Wayland compositor.

[dimko]

nope.

this is the layer that allows X application to run on top of a Wayland compositor.

but isn't it layer of protocol?

[keit99]

but isn't it layer of protocol?

No it's an XServer that uses the wayland protocol to do things. so essentially XClient -> XWayland -> Wayland_compositor. at least as far as I understand it.

[cynic]

but isn't it layer of protocol?

it's a piece of sofware implementing the X Windows System Protocol by one side and the Wayland protocol on the other side, making the two talking each other