2mo ago

Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland

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I hope it works with fractional scalling !
Valve should migrate steam to wayland eventually, the X code to run steam is not the cleanest thing ever.
- the X code to run steam is not the cleanest thing ever
  Where is that available to inspect?
  
  I think this is what they are referring to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver
- The funniest thing is how the Gaming Mode on the Steam Deck works. It first runs Gamescope, a Wayland compositor. This then runs Steam in a XWayland session. Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.
  
  Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.
  No, it doesn't start another gamescope. It starts a second Xwayland in the same gamescope instance.
- There's a launch option you can add to your Steam .desktop file or whatever that will scale the UI up and fractional works. I think I have mine at 1.15x.
  Don't remember the command off the top of my head though.
I thought steam was able to run natively on Wayland?
- Nope, and nope.
  
  Worth clarifying from your proton link, it’s still behind an experimental feature flag but the support for Wayland in proton is coming along really well. I’ve just blanket enabled Wayland for all my games and with the latest proton-ge version they all work great.
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