Wayland support about vkquake HOT 11 CLOSED

I am willing to test once code is added. If you want to use another branch, that is fine. The easiest route to test this is a spare machine with Fedora 25 or Arch Linux (among other methods). Fedora 25 uses wayland as the default compositor now. For example, GNOME on Arch Linux uses Wayland by default, but traditional X applications use XWayland. I suppose the only true way to check if it's natively using wayland, is to add a compile-time flag to only use wayland support.

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This is more like a suggestion for other people to write it. I don't have a Linux machine and I don't want to write code blindly I can't even compile.

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Although thinking about it a bit more, I don't know what the status on SDL & Wayland is.

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The Arch Linux wiki is usually a good place to start, since they are bleeding edge. It seems support is merely experimental at the moment. Advancements have been pouring in this year, but I don't believe it is quite complete yet. The wayland landing page usually keeps an overview.

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I would also test this once Nvidia releases drivers that support vulkan under Wayland without xorg. SDL2 added support for Wayland back in 2.0.4 and made Wayland default over xorg. I use Arch Linux, and my full system specs are in my Steam profile, which is linked in my GitHub page.

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Should be fixed by a69c20b. The SDL2 Vulkan code has Wayland support.

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Doesn't seem to be working. With SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland the game window just does not appear. The console output is like normal, quake initialized and everything. But there's no window. SDL2's testvulkan demo does work fine with SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland…

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On Wayland I get:

QUAKE ERROR: Couldn't create window: Vulkan support is either not configured in SDL or not available in current SDL video driver (offscreen) or platform

with SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland I get:

QUAKE ERROR: Couldn't init SDL video: wayland not available

on X11 it works fine.

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@mooreye check your SDL2 build. vkquake itself doesn't have any issues since way back when

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@valpackett I use SDL2 for quakespasm and it launches on wayland no problem.

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Irrelevant. QuakeSpasm doesn't use Vulkan.

This is not a vkQuake bug. It's either in your SDL2 version or something else in your system not configured correctly. I will lock this thread if necessary.

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