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It seems like the change affects not just Google Chrome, but the Chromium in general. I assume this will also propogate to all apps using Electron, right?
Maybe. The thing is that Electron is not made by Google. There's always a chance that downstream they may still default to X11.
I’m mostly de-googled in everything at this point. Still a little bit of stuff in isolated usage.
this is exciting for me mostly because of electron.
Electron is useful, I’ll give you that.
Interesting. I've been using Wayland for the past few months and forgot I even made the switch.
That means it's ready.
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.
so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland
Oh! I hadn't even noticed the phoronix link. Thanks