Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland (chromium-review.googlesource.com)
from that_leaflet@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 14:57
https://lemmy.world/post/34046664

www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Auto-Ozone-Platform

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AndrewZabar@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 16:16 next collapse

I’m mostly de-googled in everything at this point. Still a little bit of stuff in isolated usage.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 20:55 collapse

this is exciting for me mostly because of electron.

AndrewZabar@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 00:20 collapse

Electron is useful, I’ll give you that.

davidgro@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 19:51 next collapse

So what does it do?

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 06 Aug 20:12 next collapse

so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland

davidgro@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 21:43 collapse

Oh! I hadn’t even noticed the phoronix link. Thanks

that_leaflet@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 21:06 collapse

Chromium defaults to using X11, even on Wayland. By setting the ozone hint to auto, it will then default Wayland users to using Chromium’s Wayland backend.

davidgro@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 21:45 collapse

Ah, makes sense. Also I had failed to notice the phoronix link in my app.

pogodem0n@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 20:49 next collapse

It seems like the change affects not just Google Chrome, but the Chromium in general. I assume this will also propogate to all apps using Electron, right?

that_leaflet@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 21:13 collapse

Maybe. The thing is that Electron is not made by Google. There’s always a chance that downstream they may still default to X11.

haloduder@thelemmy.club on 07 Aug 08:39 collapse

Interesting. I’ve been using Wayland for the past few months and forgot I even made the switch.

That means it’s ready.