You are right
But in this case, the “steamos-waydroid-installer” creates a cage ( A wayland compositor running X11), and uses XWayland to render that. That creates a nested Wy
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Telorand@reddthat.com 6 days ago
How does this work? SteamOS uses X11, and Waydroid requires Wayland. Xwayland translates X11 calls to Wayland, but I’m not aware of any Wayland to X11 compatibility projects.
shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 6 days ago
Still, I believe and hope next big SteamOS update will switch to Wayland, leaving X11 behind
Same! This would be amazing, and hopefully their teamwork with Arch will see that happen sooner than later. I noticed that they fixed some CVEs in this latest stable update, so perhaps we’ll see more!
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
SteamOS in game mode runs on wayland actually, because it’s using gamescope which is a wayland compositor. My understanding is a lot of applications are still running as x11 and then using xwayland to run on gamescope though. I don’t know if that can be manually bypassed to run directly on wayland or not.