Going all-in on a Wayland future
blogs.kde.org
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    161·
    18 hours ago

    Honestly for the best. X11 was great for what it was, but Wayland is the future. XWayland covers X11 apps that haven’t been ported yet.

    Now I just wish Cinnamon would hurry up and move to fully default Wayland.

    • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
      2·
      6 hours ago

      It may be the future, but it’s unusable for me.

      I have a high dpi screen. Upscaling does not perfectly work for me in every program, but simply setting it to Full HD does work and looks fine.

      However, when I set it to the lower resolution in Wayland, I have 50% of the display active with black bars all around.

      So far, there seems to be no fix for this?

      Same thing happens if you start older, lower resolution fullscreen apps (retro games and such).

      • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Which desktop are you using? The high dpi experience is desktop dependent until every one supports fractional scaling

        • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
          3·
          6 hours ago

          I tried it on KDE (or rather, it forced me to after it simply updated to Wayland by default). I tried to set it up correctly, but it just didn’t quite work.

          I also need no fractional scaling, but some software does not honor that anyway (e.g. VST interfaces).

          Simply reducing the resolution is a simple fix, also easier on the GPU, but Wayland will not fill the screen and intead just shows the tiny original 1:1 image in the middle.