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Electron 12 released with Wayland support

47 pointsby viallyabout 4 years ago
Version 12 of Electron has just been released with initial Wayland support. I&#x27;ve been waiting for this for <i>a long time</i> now, so I&#x27;m pretty excited about this.<p>This means that now the three major GUI toolkits for Linux (GTK, Qt and now Electron) support Wayland natively.<p>Hopefully the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) will follow suit soon [1] which should make it possible for Steam and Spotify to run natively on Wayland too (as soon as they upgrade, of course).<p>[1] - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;chromiumembedded&#x2F;cef&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2804&#x2F;ozone-wayland-x11-support

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rathbomaabout 4 years ago
This is great news!<p>One of the worst things about wayland and electron has been super fuzzy apps if you use fractional scaling, because it didn&#x27;t scale them correctly.<p>Excited to test Electron 12 for Beekeeper Studio.
MetaDarkabout 4 years ago
It looks like it won&#x27;t be so simple for Steam. I just found out a couple of days ago that Steam only uses CEF to render the main content, and it actually looks like it&#x27;s using GTK2 to render the window.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ValveSoftware&#x2F;steam-for-linux&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4924#issuecomment-789324760" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ValveSoftware&#x2F;steam-for-linux&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4924...</a>.
vcxyabout 4 years ago
Is this also a step towards easier screen sharing? The only reason I&#x27;m not on wayland is I occasionally need to screen share on Skype, zoom, and bluejeans.
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ninetaxabout 4 years ago
And slack too (if it&#x27;s written in Electron..)<p>Can&#x27;t wait for a snappier slack experience.. that lag kills me.
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