Kde on Wayland doesn’t even have sticky keys.
Jokes on you I use NVIDIA
*Cries*
Network transparency OR BUST
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Ok, then buy an rtx 4090 for every computer in the house
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You misunderstand, I don’t want crap graphics on every computer, I want the 4090 driving every computer without having to buy one per computer.
That’s what you could do with network transparency.
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PCs were not intended to have more than 640kb of ram and yet.
The blame can squarely be placed on nvidia for this decrepitude of X11 and its functionality which is in contradiction of nvidia’s unlimited profit ambitions.
RDP is the anachronism. Why would I want to stream a whole desktop environement with its own separate taskbar, clock, whole user environement. Especially given how janky and laggy it is.
No, I want to stream -just- the application, it should use my system’s color and temperature scheme, interoperate clipboard and drag&drop, be basically indistinguishable from a locally running app, except streaming at 500mbps AV1 hardware encoded, 12 ms latency max, 16k resolution, yes this is not a typo, 16 bit hdr, hdr that actually works, the sounds works too, works every time, yes 8 channel 192khz 24 bit lossless. Also capable of pure IP multicast streaming. Yes that means one application instance visible on multiple computer, at the same time and can be interacted with multiple users at the same time with -no- need for the app to be aware if any of this.
Do that with no jank and I’ll sing wayland’s praises.
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And that’s with functional copy&paste, drag&drop ? Basically indistinguishable from a local app ?
Yes, just go try and see for yourself.
Me, not much of a gamer and not a movie buff and having no issues with the way monitors have been displaying things for the past 25 years: No.
When I could no longer see the migraine-inducing flicker while being irradiated by a particle accelerator shooting a phosphor coated screen in front of my face, I was good to go.
It was exciting when we went from green/amber to color!
HDR is almost useless to me. I’ll switch when wayland has proper remote desktop support (lmk if it does but I’m pretty sure it does not)
Seems like there’s a bunch of solutions out there:
As of 2020, there are several projects that use these methods to provide GUI access to remote computers. The compositor Weston provides an RDP backend. GNOME has a remote desktop server that supports VNC. WayVNC is a VNC server that works with compositors, like Sway, based on the wlroots library. Waypipe works with all Wayland compositors and offers almost-transparent application forwarding, like ssh -X.
Do these not work for your use case?
I did try those, but it might be the fault of my nvidia card for not working. The issue was that I wasn’t able to understand nor fix any problems that popped up. I’ll try it out again when I get a new GPU
Yeah, Nvidia really sucks on Linux unfortunately and they simply do not care very much.
MPV playback and games aren’t everything, but it’s decent for the starter
OK but can you please call NVidiachan? I know you two don’t get along but maybe you can ask her for some support?
NVidiachan is busy selling GPUS for AI, but she is also working on adding explicit sync
If I understand correctly Nvidia isn’t doing anything to do with explicit sync, it just doesn’t support implicit sync which is currently what Wayland uses because we don’t have explicit sync yet. Explicit sync would work with existing Nvidia drivers.
without any interruption to gaming compability I definitely don’t want to switch sorry.
HDR is cool and I look forward to getting that full game compability and eventually making the switch but it’s just not there yet
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Still can’t use Barrier/Synergy with it 🤷🏻♂️
Joke’s on you I can’t afford an HDR display & also I’m colorblind.
Was gonna say the same thing, HDR is like flac and expensive amps for audiophiles Maybe we should start calling them visualphiles ? 🤷♂️
If you can’t tell the difference between a FLAC and an MP3 that’s fine. I can through a cheap pair of headphones and it’s enough that I re-ripped my CDs to FLAC from 320mp3 and they really shine now.
Well, I can. But the difference is so minor it won’t make a difference in my opinion. Especially if you are listening mostly to digital music. It’s a different story for classical, especially violin. But if i played for you both 320 kb mp3 and flac you probably won’t notice unless i told you what to look for and thats fine.
I don’t judge people Hobies, i just wanted To point out how both are somehow similar
The thing is that no one should listen 128kb mp3 -or youtube rip- and having a wide accurate color range screen is more important imo
Eh SDR to HDR is a waaay bigger jump than Mp3 to FLAC. Assuming of course you have an actual HDR display. And not one of those “HDR” displays that only have like 400 nits of peak brightness.
“FLAC? Mate I destroyed my ears when I was 14 and listening to Linkin Park MP3s grabbed off Kazaa in the cheapest chinese earbuds my allowance could buy, at the highest volume my fake iPod could drive. I cannot hear the subtleties in your FLAC if I tried.”
Cheek aside I believe the word would be Videophiles to pair with Audiophiles.
You can still profit from the increase in brightness and contrast! Doesn’t make a good HDR screen any cheaper though…
It’s not ready yet.
The protocol for apps/games to make use of it is not yet finalized.
I can play games and watch videos in HDR though
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Nah, I don’t Need HDR
HDR is like RGB, sometimes cool if done really well but usually just a useless selling point.
For a second there I thought you were advocating for fluorescent green or monochromatic CRT screens of old.
Those are very cool tho, i still just barely got to experience those at home :D
Yeah I’ll stick with my monochrome 2 color display for now.
Yes, I’ll take 8!
40,320?
Nah good old 255 (8-bit obviously)
Been watching this drama about HDR for a year now, and still can’t be arsed to read up on what it is.
HDR makes stuff look really awesome. It’s super good for real.
HDR or High Dynamic Range is a way for images/videos/games to take advantage of the increased colour space, brightness and contrast of modern displays. That is, if your medium, your player device/software and your display are HDR capable.
HDR content is usually mastered with a peak brightness of 1000nits or more in mind, while Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) content is mastered for 80-100nit screens.
How is this a software problem? Why can’t the display server just tell the monitor "make this pixel as bright as you can (255) and this other pixel as dark as you can (0)?
In short: Because HDR needs additional metadata to work. You can watch HDR content on SDR screens and it’s horribly washed out. It looks a bit like log footage. The HDR metadata then tells the screen how bright/dark the image actually needs to be. The software issue is the correct support for said metadata.
I‘d speculate (I’m not an expert) that the reason for this is, that it enables more granularity. Even the 1024 steps of brightness 10bit colour can produce is nothing compared to the millions to one contrast of modern LCDs or even near infinite contrast of OLED. Besides, screens come in a number of peak brightnesses. I suppose doing it this way enables the manufacturer to interpret the metadata to look more favorably on their screens.
And also, with your solution, a brightness value of 1023 would always be the max brightness of the TV. You don’t always want that, if your TV can literally flashbang you. Sure, you want the sun to be peak brightness, but not every white object is as bright as the sun… That’s the true beauty of a good HDR experience. It looks fairly normal but reflections of the sun or the fire in a dark room just hit differently, when the rest of the scene stays much darker yet is still clearly visible.
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You already had me at “144hz on one monitor and 60hz on the other so I can enjoy the nice monitor without having to buy a new secondary one.”
Option "AsyncFlipSecondaries" "true"
How will HDR affect the black screen I get every time I’ve tried to launch KDE under Wayland?
It will make your screen blacker.
But it all seriousness, your display manager might not support Wayland. Try something like ssdm.
I’m using SDDM and it lets me select Wayland as an option just fine, Just my Nvidia card won’t load my desktop then.
I’m going full AMD next time I upgrade but that’s gonna be a while away…
It should work with the latest Nvidia driver. It does for me.
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Nothing you can do then. Stay on x11 until nvidia get their shit together.
They just did now that explicit sync is merged everywhere except wlroots
how on earth do I know what DM I’m using? Does it come with the compositor? I just start hyprland from the terminal without adding anything to systemd.
Then you aren’t using one
Oh, lightdm has some trouble sometimes on my other computer, are you saying that I could somehow start i3 without it when it breaks itself?
You could start it directly from tty with startx https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit
