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Hmm... probably we'll have to give up some things we (or at least I) got used to when switching to Wayland.

I've been using Wayland now for a while, and yes, it does have its benefits. E.g on my Surface Pro 7 with Gnome, I can use the full resolution of 2736x1824 with frictional scaling to 175%. It runs very smooth. With X11 performance is very laggy when moving windows and mouse speed feels way to slow. My workaround for that was to use a lower resolution, but none matches the full 3:2 screen, closest I could get was 1680x1050 showing some black bars on top and buttom.

Also Synergy/Deskflow/InputLeap/Barrier (it's more or less all the same) still has issues, on some I get the desktop-portal question for which screen to share and permission each time I start it, while it doesn't ask it on others. Same version... and copy/paste between devices doesn't work on Wayland yet.

But I can get along with these little annoyances. What I'll really be missing is the input-overlay plugin for OBS. To show the MoveMaster keypresses on screen. But input-overlay relies on libuiohook, which apparently cannot easily be made compatible with Wayland.

VR on Ubuntu 24.04 with Gnome 46 is missing DRM leasing, but that's fixed in the next version.

My only real issue is the input-overlay. Wayland works for me pretty well otherwise, I'm using it on my Ubuntu desktop PC with nVidia, old VR gaming notebook running arch and nVidia, vBazzite uses it on my Legion Go and CachyOS uses it on my ROG Ally. And the Surface Pro 7 also running Ubuntu.

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