So We all know that wayland is the feature of display server in Linux.
In this post I will show you how i setup wayland on my main pc and laptop.
We all hate or love Electron, Electron have many issues for me, this Why i setup Electron apps as web apps as posable.
Still there is tons of apps that is not web apps and built using Electron, this how i make them use wayland.
You bascily edit there .desktop file and add --ozone-platform-hint=auto --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer.
Vs code for an example
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Visual Studio Code
Comment=Code Editing. Refined.
GenericName=Text Editor
Exec=/usr/bin/code --unity-launch --ozone-platform-hint=auto --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer %F
Icon=visual-studio-code
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=Code
Categories=TextEditor;Development;IDE;
MimeType=text/plain;inode/directory;application/x-code-workspace;
Actions=new-empty-window;
Keywords=vscode;
[Desktop Action new-empty-window]
Name=New Empty Window
Exec=/usr/bin/code --new-window --ozone-platform-hint=auto --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer %F
Icon=visual-studio-code
You could try making ~/.config/electron-flags.conf and ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf and putting in them
--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform
--ozone-platform=wayland
--enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer
however this didnt work for me.
also you can tell newer versions of elctron that wayland is the only thing that exiets by adding ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland to /etc/environment
even if hyprland wm is wayland it requires some config for wayland to work.
Put this in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
env = WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS,1
env = QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION,1
env = GDK_BACKEND,wayland
env = XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.Hyprland
env = XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP,Hyprland
env = XDG_SESSION_TYPE,wayland
env = ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT,wayland
If you are using intel or amd gpu, then Game scope should just work.
Use it like gamescope -h 720 -H 1080 -U -r 60 -f -- mangohud %command%
This tells gamescope to run game in 720p and upscale it to 1080p
If you are using gdm and Nvidia gpu, you midge have seen that you only can boot to xorg.
This can be fixed by doing the following
sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules
by running this you are disabling the gdm rules that controls how nvidia + wayland work, bascily telling it to show wayland sesisons on nvidia gpus
sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf or in some distros sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
make sure that WaylandEnable=false is set to true like this WaylandEnable=true
also add this kernel parameter nvidia-drm.modeset=1