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So let’s talk about this Wayland thing(pointieststick.com)

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Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

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uis@lemmy.world
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As long as it launches after pipewire

Why? Why plasma nailed own screensharing to audio server? There already are wayland extensions for this.

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thalience@lemmy.world
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Pioewire handles audio and video pipelines between applications.

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So why Wayland instead of pipewire at all?

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Because Pipewire only handles and understands media streams, so it can stream the output of a window or the whole desktop, but only because the Wayland compositor has already composed the windows and other data it gets from the application to a visual and hands the final result to Pipewire.

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