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#Wayland #Protocols1.43 bringt Toplevel Tag.

Gestern wurde Wayland Protocols 1.43 veröffentlicht. Neben einigen behobenen Fehlern bietet das neue Protokoll zwei Verbesserungen. Das XDG-Shell-Protokoll wurde mit edge constraints ausgestattet. Im XDG-Shell-Protokoll sind diese Randbeschränkungen eine Ergänzung zum gekachelten Zustand.

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I built a latency meter with an Arduino and a photo transistor to answer one question: Is click-to-photon latency higher on Wayland than on X11?

And the answer is: Yes, actually.

⏱️ 42 ms on X11, compositing off
⏱️ 56 ms on X11, compositing on
⏱️ 64 ms on Wayland
⏱️ 71 ms on Windows 10

Tested with Plasma 6.3.4 and Firefox 137. I will improve my methods and confirm these numbers. See replies for details.

Anyone else running a #Wayland WM under #Wlroots and it freezes your computer to the point that nothing works not even switching TTY ? I thought it was #RiverWM related but it happens with #SwayWM too. If I don't start a Wayland session my computer is fine all day. But under Wayland I'm starting to get these random freezes like twice a day and the only cure is to hold the power button. I mean I'm tempted to revert back to X11 for stability so any info or ideas would be gratefully received. Oh and I'm running #FreeBSD too.

2025, the year I switch from wayland to Xorg.

Why? Because I bought a new screen.
Huh? Well, I don't know either.
Plasma 6 on wayland worked fine with my fullhd-screen. Yesterday, I powered the box down, switched to my new hi(gher)dpi screen, powered it on, got the bios post, boot messages, and a black screen instead of sddm. An hour later I found that sddms wayland support is experimental still, so I switched it to X, and got a black screen when my plasma-wayland session was to start. So, switched to plasma-x11 and everything is fine.
Other compositor (tested sway) are fine. 🤷

Don't know if it's nixos or plasma, I'll probably try a live usb later.
So yeah, it's the year 2025 and I'm on X. Well, could be worse, could be the other X.

Used #DisplayCal with my #ColorMunki spectro to adjust brightness/contrast/RGB of a VA-type HD monitor tonight; happy I can at least do that basic adjustment, it's miraculous that it works thanks to @hub's Flatpak time capsule of that app. I'm hoping the Python3 version eventually takes over and thrives as a project.

I hope #Wayland color mngt will bring robust calibration & ICC profiles mngt in #GNOME someday; colord has been broken for years, and I don't trust my current Xorg-era ICCs either.

After using daily sway-wm (#Wayland) for years, I went back i3-wm (#xorg) for about a week, and I miss Wayland so much. For example on Firefox the scroll is so rough (even scrolling just the tab bar is awful!), while on sway was silk smooth.

In case you are wondering, I am back to i3-wm because of #KiCAD, that officially does not support Wayland, and I can confirm it has several nasty problems.

Wayland steht vor einem äußerst aufregenden Jahr 2025.!

Was ist Wayland?
Wayland ist ein modernes Display-Server-Protokoll, das als Alternative zum älteren X11-Protokoll (X Window System) entwickelt wurde. Es dient der Verwaltung von grafischen Benutzeroberflächen in Linux- und Unix-ähnlichen Betriebssystemen. Wayland zielt darauf ab, eine einfachere und effizientere Architektur für die Darstellung von Grafiken und die Eingabeverarbeitung zu bieten.

Ein Kind würde ich es so erklären:
Wayland ist wie ein neuer Weg, wie dein Computer die Bilder und Spiele auf dem Bildschirm zeigt. Stell dir vor, dein Computer ist ein Künstler, der Bilder malt. Früher hatte der Künstler einen alten Pinsel, der manchmal nicht so gut funktioniert hat. Jetzt hat er einen neuen, besseren Pinsel, mit dem er viel schneller und schöner malen kann.😜

phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Q1-2

www.phoronix.comWayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025

zamundaaa.github.io/colormanag by @Zamundaaa is a really nice post about #HDR luminance on #wayland. The corollary is that we have a protocol where the distinction between SDR and HDR content does not exist. It all makes perfect sense to me theoretically, but I am greatly interested in seeing how it will fare in practice with end users.

Xaver’s blog · On brightness, and calibrating your displaysMany people are, understandably, confused about brightness levels in content creation and consumption - both for SDR and for HDR content. Even people that do content creation as their job sometimes get it really wrong.

The reason I am looking into #automation with #gnome / #ubuntu is because I'm building a prototype control panel to further streamline my multi-monitor/multi-workspace workflow.

If it looks blunt, that's because I'm not an artist, design will come later.

Right now I can switch workspaces, activate windows and control media playback.

Works better on #x11 than #wayland though. It's one of the few places where I I am thinking: "This would have been a lot easier in Windows".