X11 -> Wayland in Cosmic DE features related to input, latency and performance

[dougg0k]

Hey,

Currently I use KDE latest in a Arch Linux distro, I have both Wayland and X11 setup.

And, there is a lot of things I am able to do in X11 that doesn't seem possible on Wayland currently.

Even though I dont play games much anymore, many of that were related to it in some way, but more specifically on input, latency and performance settings.

In X11, many settings can be done to reduce input latency, through their configurations, not just the ones provided by the DE.

In X11, there are means to disable many thing that may not be wanted by others. Like Triple Buffering, PageFlip, Tearing, VSync and more.

Some monitor features like strobing (ULMB) only works on X11, not on Wayland.

There are many environment variables or settings from different things be gpu driver or DE that only seem to work on X11.

Performance tended to be better on X11 when changes were done to it. To disable things.

KDE being the current most modern and complete one still seem to lack many things in Wayland.

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I wanted to know if Cosmic DE will be working to remove any need, be from these mentions or any other that can cause others to prefer or even need to use X11?

It is doing different work, more than KDE?

e.g., Is there a "plan" to check why X11 are still used and what could be done to completely replace it?

Be through evolving Wayland protocol, implementations or whatever.

Ideally having settings to customize everything would be useful.