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XWayland 22.1 is out with DRM lease support helping VR on Linux

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XWayland, the way to run older games and applications that don't yet have native Wayland support has a brand new release out, bringing new features. XWayland is needed, as a large amount of software will take time to move from X11 to Wayland, and some might never do it.

As per the official version 22.1.0 announcement on the mailing list, the highlights of what's new includes:

  • DRM lease support
  • Enables sRGB fbconfigs in GLX
  • Requires libxcvt
  • Refactoring of the present code in Xwayland
  • Implements support for touchpad gestures
  • Support for xfixes's ClientDisconnectMode and optional terminate delay

The big one being DRM lease support, which we mentioned in a previous article. One area this will really help is Virtual Reality (VR) HMDs on Linux, as developer Drew DeVault explained in a previous blog post giving some background to it all.

In short: it should mean that you're able to play VR games of all sorts on Wayland, when they're run through XWayland. All part of the package of ensuring everything works on Wayland, which is over the next year going to quickly expand across more distributions by default over the ageing X11.

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MayeulC Feb 23, 2022
Quoting: skinnyraf
Quoting: MayeulCSimulaVR perhaps?

$3500 for SimulaVR is steep even if it is a standalone work-oriented headset.

Ah, I hadn't realized you were talking about their standalone headset. I was talking about their wayland compositor, which has existed for a while, and allows you some of the multi-monitor madness you were talking about :)
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