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Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought steam was able to run natively on Wayland?

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    I hope it works with fractional scalling !

    Valve should migrate steam to wayland eventually, the X code to run steam is not the cleanest thing ever.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    the X code to run steam is not the cleanest thing ever

    Where is that available to inspect?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think this is what they are referring to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I feel like the part where they say

    the X code to run steam […]

    is what sets it apart from the entire X server code. Something specific to Steam. But I could be wrong.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The funniest thing is how the Gaming Mode on the Steam Deck works. It first runs Gamescope, a Wayland compositor. This then runs Steam in a XWayland session. Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.

    No, it doesn't start another gamescope. It starts a second Xwayland in the same gamescope instance.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    There's a launch option you can add to your Steam .desktop file or whatever that will scale the UI up and fractional works. I think I have mine at 1.15x.

    Don't remember the command off the top of my head though.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I actually stopped having problems with steam on Wayland quite some time ago. But, one of the first things I did was turn off scaling (I have 1080 and 1440 screens). There used to be random issues with the menus in steam, and that went away a few months ago.

    My only problems (as an NVidia user) with KDE plasma on wayland right now is occasionally discord will just freeze and I need to minimize/maximise to bring it to life. And very very rarely (and actually it might have been fixed, I've not seen it in weeks), one screen will entirely freeze and I have to either switch to a console and back or logout/login to bring it back to life. Oh and not a bug, but the OBS issue with global hotkeys. Now I can run it in X mode, but then it will randomly cause an issue where it makes games shudder. Only in X capture mode. It's most odd.

    It brings enough positives compared to X that these really minor problems are worth it.

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