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Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had to force it to run in xwayland because in wayland it no longer remembers window positions, so with wayland it was opening all my windows in a big pile on the current desktop, instead of putting them in the positions and on the desktops they belong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sounds more like a compositor problem - typically a client should not have control over where windows are placed, and that X11 allowed that got heavily abused with negative impact on UI. Wayland fortunately fixed that, so it is now up to the compositor where to place windows. Those can send hints, but the compositor is free to ignore them.

In your situation your compositor should remember where to stick the windows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Kwin. It works with xwayland, doesn't with wayland, I'd love a solution, but I found nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Window rules based on the application name and window title?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't the window title change on firefox depending on tab or even web-page?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you want certain pages in certain screens it would work, and then they'd stay there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

And if I ever browse away from that page and forget to return to it before closing firefox...

This has a million caveats and isn't even close to a solution for how I use firefox. Each desktop has their own windows and I want them to stay there because the tabs open are relevant to that desktop.

Meanwhile forcing xwayland, just works.