Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion

Friday's release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It's coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Relative-Mouse

[shmerl]

Cool progress.

Tested CP2077 in Wayland mode. Mouse input works well, but you likely also need this commit before it's upstreamed:

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/commit/f6d04e332309159de4dc3aab219aafa838a0a3c0

Some issues I noticed:

* Window title is unset.
* Shortcut keys stop working for cyber engine tweaks after cursor capture happens. They work in XWayland mode fine.

[Beryesa]

One of the fastest progress I saw about anything in the Wayland space 😅, kudos to Alexandros and all other contributiors ✨

[Kjell]

Whenever this gets benchmarked, please compare latency and not just FPS

[shmerl]

Whenever this gets benchmarked, please compare latency and not just FPS

I didn't notice perceivable latency difference (i.e. everything feels as responsive as in XWayland case), but I have no exact way to measure it either. How do you even test that?

[V1tol]

One of the fastest progress I saw about anything in the Wayland space 😅, kudos to Alexandros and all other contributiors ✨

This driver was available for quite a long time ago. This year it was just split into reasonably sized PRs and finalized missing features. I remember patching my Wine 2 years ago with it and back then it only supported fullscreen Vulkan applications.

Of course I am not trying to diminish amount of work that was done to create this driver and maybe convince maintainers to include into upstream. Great work, Alexandros Frantzis!

[CochainComplex]

cant wait to get until the first versions will make it into proton ge. xfree Desktop experience

[nvaert1986]

cant wait to get until the first versions will make it into proton ge. xfree Desktop experience

An xfree experience? I wouldn't recommend that to anyone. That's going back in time to 2003 - 2004 where X.org was forked from XFree a long time ago

[CochainComplex]

An xfree experience? I wouldn't recommend that to anyone. That's going back in time to 2003 - 2004 where X.org was forked from XFree a long time ago

pun intended

[nvaert1986]

pun intended

Exactly