RPF progress with Wayland

[TheOldPresbyope]

Interesting item today in Raspberry Pi News. They’re going all in with Wayland and the labwc compositor. Back when Tim was porting to Bookworm,  I played with their previous favorite compositor wayfire trying to reimplement moOde’s localUI without using X. My experience was only so-so. Now I have a new toy to play with.

Regards,
Kent

[the_bertrum]

I wonder if Wayland will allow waking up the display without registering a touch.

[TheOldPresbyope]

I wonder if Wayland will allow waking up the display without registering a touch.

Good question 

Lots of gotchas I stumbled across in Wayland. Don't rightly remember about screen wakening.

Regards,
Kent

[Tim Curtis]

Maybe after a round or two of bug fixes with their official release we could start experimenting with Wayland again.

[jenzd]

Is there any chance to restore the Pixel Aspect Ratio correction with Wayland? That's something I really miss for the official 7 inch touch display. Yet I didn't find anything useful while searching the web ...

Maybe the ultimate workaround will be to buy one of the recently introduced second generation official touch displays instead. Besides a higher resoution of 1280 x 720 it finally seems to have native square pixels.

Regards,
Jens

[Tim Curtis]

I couldn't find any way to get "square pixels" in Bookworm with the KMS driver but my 10.1 inch WINAXIT display doesn't have that issue and hopefully the new 7 inch touch will also be ok.

[TheOldPresbyope]

I couldn't find anything in labwc documentation either. I can't help but wonder if the move to Bookworm and labwc/Wayland forced their hand to come up with a 2nd generation touchscreen with a better pixel aspect ratio. Or maybe I'm just overthinking this

Regards,
Kent