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This is running in WSL?
Microsoft has some wayland stuff already for WSL, though I think internally there's RDP involved: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
Wayland as a concept is pretty good.
But I would strongly urge anyone from switching to it unless you have nostalgia about the bug-ridden nature of the 2010-era Linux Desktop.
I’m still using it, by the way, with Hyprland, but I think I’ll be switching back to X11/i3 soon. Here’s a taste of my experience thus far.
Electron apps are a mess. This isn’t (all) wayland’s fault but for issue lists like https://github.com/electron/electron/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%... to exist, proponents of wayland would find it in their best interest to tackle the problems given the large number of applications that use electron.
Screen sharing doesn’t work. All the old fixes are to be ignored - it has regressed. Again. Font sizes are screwy. VSCode simply doesn’t work. The handy slack shortcuts like ctrl+shift+space for mute that work anywhere only work when slack is focused on Wayland.
If you have multiple monitors of different scaling factors, moving a window from one to the other results in it becoming unbearably blurry.
wl-clipboard and vim with clipboard=unnamedplus (the only reasonable clipboard) simply don’t work well together, and have a history of bugs going back for FOUR YEARS. At the moment, holding down x or d for repeated deletes is INSANELY slow. As in, I’m used to it working at my repeat rate of ~60 deletes per second and it barely does 3.
Every now and then, my cursor becomes huge. Every now and then, it becomes tiny. No idea why, and I’m afraid to ask.
Basically, it’s not a comfortable experience.
Turns out that Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS has a library out of sync.[1] No Wayland use of Vulkan on LTS until mid-2024. Apparently fixed in Ubuntu 22.10.
Back to Xorg for now.
[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/80
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4763
sad to see another linux api design failure