wlroots VS wine-wayland

>barrier has been unmaintained for a long time.

As if not having new features added for 2 years makes it stop working? barrier is perfectly fine on normal linux desktop installs. I actually use synergy 1.x personally which has been "unmaintained" for much, much longer. Except synergy 1.x will compile and run on anything from windows 98 to ubuntu 5 to debian 12. You can't get a waynergy or inputleap to compile on an OS more than 2 years old. And even then, as you say, it's crapshoot if the particular wayland will have libei; many like sway are actively hostile to it and never will: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2378

It looks like they actually patched it to filter those modes out, so presumably it worked out of the box and was considered undesirable: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/3038

I haven't experienced any of those. The video game performance hit may be due to vsync, but I don't play games so I haven't noticed.

You can however use tinywl. It is an example Wayland compositor that can't do more than displaying one application.

Sway/wlroots has implemented this, but I can't find any discussion for KDE.

wlroots is archived on github. Is it abandoned? Just saying, that only means they moved git hosts :-D

A lot of compositors are based no the wlroots lirbary. So they are still sharing the development effort and have a common base, its just in the form of a library rather than a display server.

gamescope use wlroots

here ya go https://github.com/varmd/wine-wayland/releases

something like this has been happening for a while so I expected that a launch option may be made https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wine-wl-git https://github.com/varmd/wine-wayland/tree/master https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge\_requests/2712 https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2275 and a couple of these merge requests are merged so I expected that maybe a launch option will be available

Already exists: https://github.com/varmd/wine-wayland

Check out this GitHub repo, it has some changes that make a good percent of games playable on wayland

Have y'all tried looking at the wine-wayland driver? I have no idea if it works, but I do know there is a difference between this driver and the official one frome Wine. Wine uses XWayland and might even be using X11 (which is possible through Crostini's X-forwarder).