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by gtirloni 842 days ago
I'd imagine XWayland Xorg emulation is far from perfect so I wouldn't be surprised if games that depend on that would crash.

That being said, I recently switched to Wayland again after a hiatus and it seems support keeps improving. I'm not using proprietary NVIDIA drivers currently so that might be it.
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bitwize 842 days ago
The thing that you have to remember about Xwayland is that it is Xorg. It just has a Wayland DDX[0] on the back end rather than a device-specific DDX or one that talks e.g., directly to the modesetting driver.

[0] Device-Dependent X, i.e., the bits of X that talk directly to the display. Contrasted with Device-Independent X (DIX), i.e., the bits that do state tracking and protocol communication with clients.

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angiosperm 841 days ago
So, it is the Wayland DDX part that is buggy? How is that different from "Wayland Xorg emulation is buggy"?
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bitwize 836 days ago
Because it can't emulate what it actually is. Xwayland is Xorg.
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shutty 841 days ago
Xwayland is maintained by Xorg
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