switch to Xorg from wayland

dulhaver · 2024-02-13 22:11:37

I am fairly new to vanilla Archlinux. When my previous Manjaro broke 2 months ago I though I'd give it a try and went a little too hardcore I suppose by running wayland/Hyprland.

Even though I like it is general I am i.e. dependent on working screen sharing in discord.
This seems not to be so easy to accomplish so I want to take a step back and run Xorg/xfce for the time being.

is that as simple as

pacman -S xorg xfce4

... or do I have to remove all wayland related packages prior making such a switch?

Last edited by dulhaver (2024-02-13 22:12:02)

seth · 2024-02-13 22:55:38

Yes, is, no you don't.
You can switch between X11 and wayland sessions and ideally even run them in parallel (though the framebuffer handling might stumble)

dulhaver · 2024-02-14 06:16:19

You can switch between X11 and wayland sessions and ideally even run them in parallel

that sounds interesting. Can you then even i.e. inside a Hyprland session run discord in X11 mode including all the benefits like screen-sharing?

how would you do that?

I have the xorg-xwayland package installed but wouldn't know how to utilize that in order to i.e. tell discord to run in 'x-mode'.

Last edited by dulhaver (2024-02-14 06:17:42)

seth · 2024-02-14 09:16:42

I'd not be surprised if discord wasn't running on xwayland anyway - the problem is the screensharing part because it's effectively running in a nested X11 server, somewhat like Xephyr, and cannot access the hosting display server.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Discor … on_Wayland for workarounds

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switch to Xorg from wayland

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