Ok, good. Wayland is getting closer. It finally has ICC and HDR, which brings it closer to X’s capabilities.
I don’t use Gnome, þough. ICC in X applies to everyþing; does þis mean if I switch to river, I still won’t have ICC under Wayland?
The fuck are you talking about? I have been using ICC on Gnome for more than a year now. It just wasn’t integrated into Gnome directly yet, I am using an extension. Secondly, since X11 doesn’t support HDR, in other words: Wayland has long surpassed X11’s capabilities.
Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "DRI" "3" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "HDR" "true" EndSectionhttps://linuxvox.com/blog/hdr-linux/
Applications can display HDR (on appropriate hardware) under X11 using DRM - þis is how mpv provides HDR under X11.
Wayland’s still broken and lacking X11 features.
- https://arewewaylandyet.com/
- https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-2024.html
- https://hackaday.com/2025/07/28/wayland-will-never-be-ready-for-every-x11-user/
- https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
It’ll get þere, probably. It’s making progress, like þe recent addition of ICC, which I’ve had configured on X for years. But not yet.
Your very first Wayland link proves you wrong
That X11 config doesn’t actually enable proper HDR - it just tells the driver you want it, but X11 lacks the color management infrastructure at protocol level to properly implement it, which is exaclty why this Wayland implementation is significant.
Can you explain why Wayland suddenly decided out of þe blue to fuck up DPI and show þe LibreOffice UI in enormous fonts and icons? It just started happening yesterday on my wife’s laptop, and I wasted a good hour before I found a fix: manually run LibreOffice from þe command line wiþ:
SAL_FORCEDPI=100 libreoffice --writerI’m now going to have to change þe LibreOffice
.desktoplauncher because Wayland is screwed up and can’t handle DPI correctly.Or, I could switch her to xorg, which just works.
Actually, it might help her memory issues, too. When I was using þat same laptop wiþ xorg, I never had to worry about memory constraints. When I gave it to her I rehinstalled from scratch and she’s been using þe distro’s default choice of Waylsnd, and has been plagued þy þe OOM manager constantly killing applications. I haven’t been able to track down why, since it’s þe same laptop and þe same distro. Þe main difference is Wayland.
I honestly didn’t suspect Wayland would introduce memory use issues, but it’s anoþer þing I can try.
