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i think you can if you run
just _toggle_wayland in the terminal
dont have a deck with bazzite so cant test, but from my understanding looking at the scripts it should work like thatI didn't see it when I typed
justi believe the _ at the beginning makes it hidden
it essentially adds a file to /etc/default which tells the steamos-session-select to use wayland instead of x11
for context im running a custom image with the login screen active so the exit to desktop option takes me to the login screen (as the switcher kinda crashes on my weird desktop system) hence why i cant test
what are the pros and cons of using wayland kde on the deck
no idea sadly, all i can tell you is that all the development upstream is happening on wayland these days, there are some things wayland cant do that X11 can like global hotkeys, but because of the security model of wayland, global hotkeys is something the DE has to implement (and apparently KDE should support global hotkeys, just dont know how to set it up as im in the process of switching over myself)
why isnt wayland the default for the steam deck?
probably because back when it launched wayland was missing more functionality you would have expected it to have and X11 was most likely choosen for compatibility so you would not get people having issues sharing their screen in discord or streaming with obs (i know there was some issues with this on wayland at some point with wayland, but just using it as an example)
these days wayland will work for most people completely fine, while X11 is favored by people using nvidia due to well... nvidia being nvidia, especially if you have an older card
here is a situation that makes wayland better for me
i have an amdgpu and an nvidia gpu
i tend to send the nvidia gpu into virtual machines so my host never uses it except on the first boot.
X11 may crash with the nouveau driver on some desktop environments because it might default to the nvidia card using the nouveau driver even though nothing is connected to it.
wayland will query the cards and go "oh ok, there is stuff connected to card2 which is using amdgpu, i guess this is the actual card used for displays" and then just work
so for me wayland is favorable going forward
would you recommend me doimg the toggle wayland thing?
you can try it, the deck should support wayland fine from my knowledge, but kyle might know more since i believe he runs bazzite on the deck?
you can just run the command again to toggle wayland off
good to know
why is it hidden?
that i do not know 😅
Because it's not something we'd suggest a user do. X11 is used on Deck as Steam Input doesn't fully support it yet and even with extest, there's some off behavior. You're free to try it though
glad there is a way to revert back
Not on a deck
you won't be able to type special symbols or capital letters
may be fixed in Fedora 39
Steam Input has no support for Wayland
i couldn't use the ( and ) symbols
wayland doesn't support any sort of remote desktop which is a huge dealbreaker for me personally
GNOME just merged a change that finally kills X11
next release won't have a X11 session at all
looks like i'll be rebasing to KDE on my deck then
so stupid of them to kill x11 when wayland hasn't reached feature parity
it's a shame because i really like wayland in terms of how much smoother and snappier it is compared to x
that and it actually works with multi monitor/mixed refresh rate setups
I think the intent is to force adoption
yeah that's what i figured
applications like the remote desktop one you're using will never change if they don't have to
so now they have to
i really hope so
even things like xrandr have ports now
GitHub
GitHub - maxwellainatchi/gnome-randr-rust:
xrandr for Gnome/wayla...xrandr for Gnome/wayland, on distros that don't support wlr-randr - GitHub - maxwellainatchi/gnome-randr-rust: xrandr for Gnome/wayland, on distros that don't support wlr-randrwe ship this
it's about time someone makes a good remote desktop app for wayland that also works on android (which is what i need)
that's still definitely gonna piss people off tho
gnome-remote-desktop works on wayland as a server using rdp (used this on chimeraos)
think krfb works on kde as vnc host on wayland, havent tested it yet though
i tried krfb on my desktop dual boot and it didn't work
iirc it would connect but on the client-side everything was just a black screen with a cursor
yeah that would be the xwayland desktop you got so yeah wont work
there is probably a way to get rdp server working on kde too though just like it works on gnome-shell wayland
however gnome-remote-desktop is a module for the gnome settings so a bit hard to configure it on anything else using gui 😅