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gamescope
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ValveSoftware / gamescope
gamescope
SteamOS session compositing window manager
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SteamOS session compositing window manager
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I love X, etc and use it all the time, but let's be honest, X isn't exactly rock solid either. I had X crash due to video mode switches (mainly via games) so many times that…
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
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5 sourcesWEweystrom·Oct 17, 2024
They use a gamescope[1] session to achieve this. You could potentially do the same on dekstop, but it's painful.
[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
In 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linuxhttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope is the one actually competent wayland WM.
In Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11Huh, I didn't even realize MangoHUD can do frame limiting. I've always just used gamescope[0] for that. The latter is probably overkill if all you want to do is limit framerate though.
[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
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On a serious note, did you know you can boot to gamescope and have a steamdeck like experience on your computer? https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
FSR scaling and everything.
In All three game console makers have now abandoned X integrationIf a game doesn't work in Wayland, you could always launch it in gamescope[1], which AFAIR doesn't expose WAYLAND_DISPLAY by default, so games should treat it the same as an X11 desktop.
[1]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
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