[Feature] Use Wayland native

[6543]

What feature would you like to see?

it would be nice to have it run native via wayland, so e.g. fractial scaling works

How will this feature be useful to you and others?

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Request Type

• I can provide a PoC for this feature or am willing to work on it myself and submit a PR

Additional context?

No response

[WerWolv]

Duplicate of #30

[6543]

@WerWolv sadly it's not an duplicate ... as this asks for native wayland support not just support.

It's fine to mark it as wontfix if you plan to relay on xwayland in the long run ...

[WerWolv]

We don't rely on xwayland though. It depends on what version of glfw you have installed. If you install the x11 version on wayland it will use xwayland but if you're using the wayland version it will run natively

[6543]

I use the flatpak version ... as the nix packaged did not want to start, in this case it looks like an packaging issue rather than an upstream - thanks for clarification :)

[Twig6943]

We don't rely on xwayland though. It depends on what version of glfw you have installed. If you install the x11 version on wayland it will use xwayland but if you're using the wayland version it will run natively

Soo.. which packages support wayland?

[WerWolv]

@Twig6943 Every package that uses glfw 3.4 or later supports both X11 and Wayland at the same time. I believe right now that's the rpm packages, the Arch Linux package and the latest Ubuntu one.

Alternatively, if you build ImHex yourself, you can make it use Wayland by making sure to install the glfw-wayland package

[Twig6943]

Could u test out the appimage & flatpak pkgs and get back to me?

[6543]

the flatpak for flathub uses xorg socket -> xwayland

[Twig6943]

What about the appimage?

[6543]

official appimage form latest release also uses xwayland -> tested with xeyes trick

[Twig6943]

soo both distro agnostic pkgs use xwayland 👍 (ngl sad too see 😞 )

[WerWolv]

Again, you can build it yourself from source and it will use Wayland. Once Ubuntu finally updates glfw, both the Flatpak and the AppImage will also start working with both X11 and Wayland natively right away.

[Twig6943]

Again, you can build it yourself from source and it will use Wayland. Once Ubuntu finally updates glfw, both the Flatpak and the AppImage will also start working with both X11 and Wayland natively right away.

Any ETA on that?

[WerWolv]

Again, you can build it yourself from source and it will use Wayland. Once Ubuntu finally updates glfw, both the Flatpak and the AppImage will also start working with both X11 and Wayland natively right away.

Any ETA on that?

Ask Canonical, not me lol

[Twig6943]

@WerWolv could u rename & reopen this issue? Rename it to something like "Wayland backend on distro agnostic pkg"

[6543]

Done for you #1967