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Wayland pros and cons? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, what are the pros and cons to wayland if I intend to use my PC for gaming + others?

Comparisons to X?

General impressions?

Your advice on if I should use it or stick with X?

My PC parts are arriving soon, and while Ive been a linux user since 2016 its the first time I intend to fully main drive linux, so I guess im just looking for as much information as I can get on it.

Feel free to post links to articles or anything that will answer if you prefer, we're on a link aggregator after all ;) and I dont mind reading.

Thanks in advance :)

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[–] lack 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This (multi-monitor support) is exactly why I switched to sway from i3wm, and haven't looked back.

Not a gamer, so I can't speak to that aspect, but for everything I do there's not much difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@lack @LaggyKar wanted to try sway or other wayland based DE for better monitor support but being dependent on xkb for colemak keyboard prevents that.

Need to find a solid keyboard solution that works on wayland as well as in X11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do use a Dvorak_ES layout and it works perfectly fine in both Sway and Hyprland. I assume Colemark would too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@SrEstegosaurio I use colemak from bigbagtrix that applies it via setxkbmap. Tried that on fedora sway spin, wouldnt work erroring cos it needed X11. Maybe should try out in other WMs like you said or try using kmonad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

xkb layout options are set in the sway configuration file in the input section: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/sway#Keymap

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

except unfortunately sway doesn't actually support VRR the way it's suppose to be used. Currently VRR is active until you make a window full screen, once a window is full screen VRR doesn't work anymore. So pretty much exactly backwards from how it's suppose to work.

Hyprland does VRR right but it has several other issues that make sway the better choice for now, just with VRR disabled.