If you use steam in-home streaming, Wayland is a no go. Also if you want to record your display with obs-studio.(not 100% sure if both points are still valid, as I have tried Wayland about 6 months ago)

I tried, but there are major missing points so far, which prevents me from using it.

Adaptive sync is not supported at all yet:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/issues/84

Subsurfaces clipping issue in Kwin:
* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387313
* https://phabricator.kde.org/T10530

No Wacom tablets support yet.

Last edited by Shmerl on 6 Dec 2019 at 2:15 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlNo Wacom tablets support yet.

I can only speak about an intuos draw, but that did work for me for a long time on Wayland

Quoting: skyrrdI can only speak about an intuos draw, but that did work for me for a long time on Wayland

In which compositors, and what about Cintiq tablets?

Last edited by Shmerl on 6 Dec 2019 at 8:27 am UTC

I've used Wayland as my primary desktop environment for over half a year and for me there haven't really been critical blockers. I'm using Sway and it's been stable and performant and generally everything I've needed has either worked or I've found alternatives for. I wrote a [blog posts detailing my experiences back then](https://samsai.eu/post/a-week-of-sway/).

Quoting: skyrrdIf you use steam in-home streaming, Wayland is a no go. Also if you want to record your display with obs-studio.(not 100% sure if both points are still valid, as I have tried Wayland about 6 months ago)

In-home streaming might still be broken but I don't use that so to me it doesn't matter. As for OBS, depending on your Wayland compositor there are ways to capture the screen. For Sway and wlroots based compositors there is [https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs](https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs) which uses a screen capture API specific to wlroots. On GNOME there are two APIs that allow screen capture and OBS plugins for both, but my testing showed them to be too slow for capturing games. But at least on Sway OBS has worked well enough that I've gone through over half a year of streaming without looking back.

Last edited by Samsai on 6 Dec 2019 at 8:46 am UTC

I think I use plasma's wayland session on my laptop. It works well enough. On my gaming rig I use plasma's X session.

I might consider switching when there's at least minimal scripting support, as in X11 with libwnck (which is really easy to control via python bindings) or wmctrl (via the shell).

I'm aware that Wayland isn't as generous (?!) as X11 in this regard, and that we might never get an equivalent of xdotool, but still, I don't think the ability to move windows between workspaces from the commandline is too much to ask.

I *think* Sway exposes python objects for scripting; but having used i3, I'm not too eager to go back to a tiling wm -- not that I don't like the keyboard driven interface; to the contrary, the less I have to use the mouse, the better; but I think that xfce's build-in keyboard controls provide a more sane environment.

For input at least, there is this: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

I have been using Wayland for some months now. For the most part, if I were a normal user and nobody told my whether I was running X or Wayland, I wouldn't have been able to tell except that screen recording is not currently possible without dropping into an X session.

Also Star Ruler 2 will only launch under X for some reason. All other games that I've played seem to be fine through XWayland.

Wasn't screen recording supposed to be handled under Wayland by Pipewire? What's the story with that project?

Last edited by Shmerl on 8 Dec 2019 at 7:00 pm UTC

Wouldn't kmsgrab work for screen recording?

Speaking of screen recording, here's something silly I just recorded on weston.
I can't wait to do similarly pointless things once XFCE gets ported to Wayland.

https://youtu.be/9biCITSUL8M

(I've no idea exactly how weston does this, but there's a built-in screencast recording option that spits out 'raw' wcap files.)