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Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

@d3Xt3r

My understanding is that both Chrome and Firefox work in Wayland, now.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Wayland-VA-API#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20limitations%20of,targeted%20the%20libva%2Dx11%20library.

@stammi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That wasn't the point I was trying to make though. :)

Chrome(ium) still doesn't run natively under Wayland by default - you'll need to manually pass specific flags to the executable to tell it to use Wayland. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/chromium#Native_Wayland_support

Firefox also needed manual flags, but not anymore - Wayland support is enabled by default since version 121, released around three months ago. But some distros had enabled Wayland for Firefox much before that, Fedora being one of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@d3Xt3r
No, FWIU with Chrome browsers you shouldn't need special switches anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Are you sure? I just tested it on Fedora 39, using Chrome v123 (Flatpak) and Chromium v123 (repo package), both of them were running under XWayland.