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Stupid question on Wayland/steamvr: How to force Screen Sharing - portal (I think thats what it is called) to open again (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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Ok, so I have Kubuntu installed running wayland and setup steamvr. The first few times it gave me the screen sharing portal, but through NOT reading carefully I accidentally setup all screens as the same one instead of the 2 different displays and 1 mirror display. OBS has this wonderful little button to trigger this to open to change which screen is shared, does anyone know how to do this for steamvr? (if you need info plz supply the command to retrieve it) I will say that wayland is working great for me so far except for my error, out of the 6 vr games I have tested (they ran badly on my previous system) only Into the Radius 2 has a slight flashing/flickering issue the other games that were almost or completely unplayable under my last system (RTX 4070ti super) are smooth as butter now.

I have temporarily gone back to X11 due to not being able to access my desktop through WLX-Overlay-s. Any help would be appreciated.

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[+] -14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

Use X. Wayland is dead on arrival.

For all the mad ones here's a reminder: the Steam Deck uses X for the desktop. You think if Wayland had a future, maybe Valve would see it? Considering they took Wine and made it functional and all.

Nevermind launching games via just Proton itself on the KDE desktop, but even if you use a nested gamescope session - it only supports X.

That's not to mention that for any gaming outside of the steam deck, you're gonna be using a real GPU that can actually play games properly, and NoVideo drivers only support X properly. You can either stay stinky with Wayland, or play with Path Tracing on.

Only GNOME Devs like Wayland. KDE, Valve, Qt and many other FOSS contributor individuals and orgs alike support and use X primarily.

Wayland is the IPv6 of the display protocol world.

Edit: guy replying to me is already blocked, what a surprise!

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