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How to force all chromium apps to use wayland, instead of xwayland by default? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Presi300@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am aware of the switches you can pass to each app to make it use native wayland, but is there any way to do it globally?

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean Electron?

The Arch wiki has docs about that.

For Flatpaks I use the environment variable

ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland

See my dotfiles on github.com/boredsquirrel/dotfiles

Same possible for Qt QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is there a noticeable benefit to those apps running natively on Wayland vs running through xWayland?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

I have not checked this, but as far as I know

performance: apps are running on a subset of XOrg and xWayland translates it to Wayland
RAM: if you have no XWayland apps anymore you save RAM
features: some apps may have more features on XOrg, some may have more on Wayland. OBS on XWayland can record keystrokes, QGis on XWayland has not broken dockable toolbars.