Leaflet@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoGoogle Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Waylandchromium-review.googlesource.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Waylandchromium-review.googlesource.comLeaflet@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square10linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLeaflet@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoChromium defaults to using X11, even on Wayland. By setting the ozone hint to auto, it will then default Wayland users to using Chromium’s Wayland backend.
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoAh, makes sense. Also I had failed to notice the phoronix link in my app.
minus-squareHiddenLayer555@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month ago so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoOh! I hadn’t even noticed the phoronix link. Thanks
So what does it do?
Chromium defaults to using X11, even on Wayland. By setting the ozone hint to auto, it will then default Wayland users to using Chromium’s Wayland backend.
Ah, makes sense. Also I had failed to notice the phoronix link in my app.
Oh! I hadn’t even noticed the phoronix link. Thanks