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Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The funniest thing is how the Gaming Mode on the Steam Deck works. It first runs Gamescope, a Wayland compositor. This then runs Steam in a XWayland session. Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 14 hours ago

Then when a game is started it starts another Gamescope session which launches the game in a second XWayland session.

No, it doesn't start another gamescope. It starts a second Xwayland in the same gamescope instance.