Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default

[ssokolow]

IME has been a bit of a mess on Wayland)

See https://dorotac.eu/posts/input_broken/ for details.

(As the page says, "This is an edited version of the "Input method on Wayland is broken and it's my fault" talk which I presented at FOSDEM 2024.")

[ssokolow]

Wine 9.22 also brings support for display mode virtualization for handling non-native display/resolution sizes.

Finally progress on this... but what exactly do they have so far? Just an equivalent to the "create a window and lie about it being a fullscreen resolution" LD_PRELOAD I wanted to write for SDL or do they also have that GPU scaling support I hear Proton uses for fullscreen display?

[pinguinpc]

This wine version in my case at simple seek work ok (dxvk-vulkan-zink)

[Zeioth]

It enabled is by default, but it won't USE it by default. If XWayland is active (which it usually is), then that will still have precedence. If XWayland is not running however, then will it run as a native Wayland app.

Sounds like this is the beginning of finally moving away from xwayland.

A few DE like cosmic (arch), hyprland (arch), and gamescope (arch) have xwayland as hard dependency. Maybe this could change that.

[ahrs]

KDE is always the first to support Wayland protocols

Not this time:

https://wayland.app/protocols/input-method-unstable-v2

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/112

They can still beat GNOME to the punch though.

[Brittle2]

How long until this makes its way into Proton? It'd be nice to finally get rid of one of the last uses of XWayland on my system (the other being IBus which is seeing active development upstream now. I hope KDE soon adds support to KWin for the various text input / input method protocols, etc, IME has been a bit of a mess on Wayland)

KDE is always the first to support Wayland protocols

[ahrs]

How long until this makes its way into Proton? It'd be nice to finally get rid of one of the last uses of XWayland on my system (the other being IBus which is seeing active development upstream now. I hope KDE soon adds support to KWin for the various text input / input method protocols, etc, IME has been a bit of a mess on Wayland)

[Alexmitter]

Great, it will make trying it super easy by just unsetting DISPLAY.

[Sethox]

Been waiting for this switch, it means that the developers are calling it (more) stable. The work is still not done, as Wine is still an active project, but all the thanks goes to all the developers, commenters, Q/A, voluntary testers.

[slagiewka]

The Wine Wayland driver is largely in good shape over lots of work that has landed over the past year.

Sure, there have been a lot of work done on it. But they never allowed an easy toggle (e.g. via env variable) for users to test it. Only now, when more people will have easier access to it, real testing will begin.