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gamescope
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ValveSoftware / gamescope
gamescope
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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| 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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3 sourcesTHthrowing_away·Jun 21, 2025
Some context for anyone unfamiliar with the linux desktop space:
Hyprland is a "wayland compositor" (roughly analogous to an X Window Manager) that is under active community development: https://hypr.land
Wayland is considered the future of the linux desktop and is what projects like Valve's SteamDeck are using: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
It's known that Hyprland Premium is going to include a bunch of pre-made dotfiles including a Quickshell bar config, if you want to see the current top-tier rice: https://quickshell.outfoxxed.me/
In Hyprland PremiumAlthough desktop GPU plane counts are much more limited, it's not as restricted as you're portraying. Here's the AMD SoC in the Steam Deck, for example: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/blob/master/src/d...
Even though it's only 3 planes, they are relatively feature-rich still. In a typical desktop UI that would indeed be primary, cursor, and video planes. But if the system cursor is hidden, such as in a game, that frees up a plane that can be used for something else - such as the aforementioned game.
In Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussionValve's gamescope addresses something that you don't seem to believe exist :
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
In Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion