It’s starting to look like 2024 will be the year of Wayland. /s
All jokes aside, it’s good to finally see more adoption from the different upstream projects.
Also, why did I have such a hard time reading this article? I’m not sure if the text was user or machine generated.
I actually think 2024 has a very good chance of being the year of wayland, scene graph api just got finished wlroots side, wine is rapidly approaching ready for wayland, sway-side all that’s missing is global shortcuts and single window capture (and disabling vsync for games is about to be merged, if you care about that).
It’s all rapidly shaping up, they even fixed nightlight nvidia side. I think it all depends on nvidia fixing shit.
You can remove the /s.
With GNOME and KDE going Wayland only, it is all but over for X. Qt, GTK, and Electron already work on Wayland so most apps are ready. Cinnamon, XFCE, Enlightenment, and MATE all have Wayland plans now. There are a few compositor libraries that other window managers and desktop environments can leverage.
NVIDIA is slowly getting their act together. Many of the legitimate complainants are being addressed. There are desirable features starting to appear that are Wayland only. Even non-Linux systems are adding Wayland support.
It is hard to believe after so many years but I think that, by Christmas 2024, most Linux users will have stopped using X and maybe even stopped talking about it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The newest Wine Wayland driver code to be merged is improved HiDPI support.
Alexandros Frantzis with Collabora has seen his “part 9” code upstreamed for the in-progress Wine Wayland driver.
This effort to allow Wine to natively interact with Wayland desktops rather than going through XWayland continues to be improved upon ahead of the Wine 9.0 code freeze beginning in December.
This part nine code of the Wine Wayland driver adds support for scaled HiDPI displays.
Those interested in this now-merged initial Wine Wayland HiDPI support can see this GitLab merge request for all of the details.
This part ten enablement is being split into three merge requests.
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What’s the wine 9.0 code freeze?
They pause development of new features to focus on bugfixes.
when will I actually be able to use a native wayland version of wine?
I believe that I’m already using it on NixOS. Working without visible problems since half a year ago.
