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		BearOso on Nov 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support Ironically, the Wayland compositor used by the steam deck, gamescope, doesn't support native Wayland applications. Even weirder, it runs inside an X11 session.

Ferret7446 on Nov 28, 2023 [–]

Wait, so why are they even using Wayland?

BearOso on Nov 29, 2023 | [–]

The readme pretty much explains it:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

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