Wayland Driver Update for Wine

Collabora has released an updated version of the Wayland driver that allows you to run applications using GDI and OpenGL/DirectX through Wine directly in a Wayland-based environment, without using the XWayland layer and getting rid of Wine's binding to the X11 protocol. We are discussing with the Wine developers to include Wayland support in the Wine Staging branch and then move it to the main Wine roster.

The new version offers several improvements based on the discussion of the first version. Added support for drag-and-drop operations and the ability to copy and paste via the clipboard between Wayland applications and programs running under Wine. Fixed problem with switching video modes. Since Wayland does not allow programs to directly change the video mode, simulation has been added to the driver via surface scaling by the Wayland composite server. If the video mode selected in Wine does not match the current screen resolution, the driver scales the window contents to the size corresponding to the required video mode via the composite server.



Source: opennet.ru

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