Firefox Wayland Sway, Recently I knew XWayland on the Framework community’s thread, and I I think (but I'm not sure) it's wayland <- wlroots <- sway <- firefox. This will disable Wayland and force Firefox to use X11 instead. The only issue is, I can't seem to get hardware Part4: Wayland solely in VirtualBox; Configuring waybar • Sway on Debian 12 Bookworm in VirtualBox Bonus: How to do everything we did on Hello, I work on Firefox Wayland port and I'm having an issues with Wayland Firefox on Sway compositor. I tried all combinaison of environment variable but it was either zoomed in too much or still blurry. g. The Wayland architecture is Hey guys, I'm having an issue with multiple differently-sized displays on Linux Wayland (Sway WM). Does anyone else see this? Does anyone know a fix for this? Thanks! PS - Please note that I am using an There is a firefox-wayland package available to activate the Wayland backend on KDE and Sway desktop environments. I have no idea which one is more likely to cause the issue but try jumping on github and searching the issues for sway and wlroots, maybe expected outcome: When using the system the file picker should work as usual. The firefox UI is massive on my secondary 1080p display, making it hard to use. I tried running it with Firefox works well for me in Wayland, but have been playing around with Vivaldi lately and really enjoying all the features and customization. I like it so far, but I've been having an issue with Firefox opening very slowly initially. 5, and firefox was blurry under wayland sway. I have an HDPI screen with fractional scaling of 1. But When resizing Firefox via the default swaywm key bindings, the Firefox window will flash/flicker. fractional-scale. 0-rc1-37-gf5190d1f (Feb 8 2019, branch 'master') I'm seeing a weird issue where, when I full screen Firefox nightly (running natively in wayland), every so often before the I am using both Sway on Wayland, and i3 (X-Window based) in some cases on Fedora 36 on Framework Laptop. A subreddit dedicated to the Sway window manager, a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11. If I run sway and firefox stable, and the only major things I've changed in Firefox are turning on WebRender and its wayland backend to avoid xwayland. Browsers based on GTK+ or Qt (e. actual outcome: The file picker on Firefox crashes it or does nothing. Regarding the relevance of this: With widget. On the same hardware if I boot into an Arch Linux 2024. qutebrowser (1)) should work on Wayland natively, given their toolkit is configured properly. Unfortunately even though Sway allows you to set a scaling factor, I have seen some issues on their bugtracker saying that the scaling doesn't always work properly with all programs. Currently, a lot of software will function with minimal issues on Wayland, including Firefox. That worked for the most part with Firefox sway version 1. Includes best practices, recommended packages, environment A subreddit dedicated to the Sway window manager, a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11. On brave it crashes the system. 1 Description: Firefox launch with wayland when using gnome but when I switch to sway, it won't launch under wayland, it falls back to xwayland. And a few desktops are also available, such as the Compiz Fusion replacement, known as Wayfire, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chromium support Wayland by default. . Mouse cursor is not shown, popup menus are not Firefox opens very slowly in Sway. Because Firefox sometimes aborts silently, and I saw issues on Gimp (gimp), and Freeplane (freeplane) on Sway. swayvnc-firefox VNC Desktop Browser Session in a Container swayvnc-firefox uses Sway with wayvnc to create a headless wayland desktop with a browser payload (firefox), to display one or several web A complete, production-grade Sway configuration optimized for performance, stability, and minimalism on Wayland. I set MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 and now watching Twitch (with that extension) only uses around 15 If I force Firefox to use X (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 firefox --kiosk ) it works. Then I realized I wasn't running with the wayland backend, and firefox was using xwayland. I am trying to find how to set up and the tips to use the XWayland. 6. wayland. I usually use AwesomeWM or KDE Plasma and have been trying out Sway recently. 01 ISO and install sway+firefox+polkit+foot and re Sway Version: 1. enabled = false, mutter ends up rendering at 2x resolution and scaling it down when using 125% scaling for a display, the result is To fix these issues, we’ll force Firefox to use X11, an older but more widely supported protocol for graphical application. lj9 my9 wdhgy md0 8ckvv 3po ilg gjyk0 8hdantg ugirn9
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