XWayland Pointer Confinement & Warping

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XWayland Pointer Confinement & Warping

Playing legacy/X11 games on Wayland via XWayland may soon be in better shape with the latest slew of X Server patches...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-Pointer-Confinement

[davidbepo]

this fixes one of my 2 wayland bugs:
cant play games(except sdl2 ones)
the other remains open:
no desktop icons
once they are fixed i will switch to wayland

[Azpegath]

this fixes one of my 2 wayland bugs:
cant play games(except sdl2 ones)
the other remains open:
no desktop icons
once they are fixed i will switch to wayland

I'm (mostly) running Wayland with Gnome 3.20 and I agree with your bugs, as well as one more. Right-click menus are sometimes incorrectly positioned, they're placed on top of the screen instead of at the mouse pointer. At least I THINK that's one of the issues I have, I'm not at home right now so I can't try it.

[davidbepo]

a little off topic:
does anyone now what 2d accel arch uses wayland
xorg uses exa/sna/glamor
xwayland uses glamor
wayland ?
i ask because if it doesnt use sna performance could be degraded

[duby229]

a little off topic:
does anyone now what 2d accel arch uses wayland
xorg uses exa/sna/glamor
xwayland uses glamor
wayland ?
i ask because if it doesnt use sna performance could be degraded

Have you actually used sna? It's horrible, terribly buggy.

Besides, all these hardware 2d backends have seriously hurt linux adoption in the past. They take serious talent to implement and most times are buggy as all hell. IMO EXA on r600 was the best, but even it had horrible bugs. Glamor is definitely the best way to go.

[Krejzi]

weston uses opengl and pixman for drawing stuff. GNOME uses clutter/cogl, so it's all 3D accelerated I believe.

[davidbepo]

Have you actually used sna? It's horrible, terribly buggy.

Besides, all these hardware 2d backends have seriously hurt linux adoption in the past. They take serious talent to implement and most times are buggy as all hell. IMO EXA on r600 was the best, but even it had horrible bugs. Glamor is definitely the best way to go.

im using sna+dri3 right now without any problems, also performance is great

[davidbepo]

weston uses opengl and pixman for drawing stuff. GNOME uses clutter/cogl, so it's all 3D accelerated I believe.

so its similar to glamor but application defined, thanks

performance should be worse than sna

[duby229]

im using sna+dri3 right now without any problems, also performance is great

Wow, what a terrible thing. It must be unbearably horrible and yet you seem so content... Weird....

[davidbepo]

Wow, what a terrible thing. It must be unbearably horrible and yet you seem so content... Weird....

like i said no problems yet i dont know what people have against sna

note: i use xf86-intel from manjaro which is git based also mesa-git updated daily