Post by @amadeus@mstdn.social

2025-09-06 13:23 UTC

@falktx Very interesting! We tried to answer a related question for the @linuxaudioplugindevelopment #faq at https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?p=178820#p178820. This is what we came up with: https://linuxaudio.dev/#pipewire-and-wayland Do you mind having a look and telling me if you think that could/should be phrased differently? Thanks for your help in advance! 🙌

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@falktx@mastodon.falktx.com 2025-09-06 14:05

@amadeus @linuxaudioplugindevelopment yeah that is not quite correct... > X11 applications and plugins work flawlessly on Wayland add a "mostly flawlessly". the compatibility is not 100%, there are cases where it breaks. > none of the popular plugin frameworks support Wayland directly true-ish, not officially yet, but best to say its WIP. I am working on it for DPF and JUCE has unofficial implementation https://forum.juce.com/t/wayland-implementation-for-juce/66840/ (more on next message)

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@falktx@mastodon.falktx.com 2025-09-06 14:16

@amadeus @linuxaudioplugindevelopment > This means that if a DAW does not offer X11 support (...) it neither can be run on X11 nor will X11 plugins work inside such a DAW This is false, the 2nd part. A wayland-only application cannot run under X11 But! a native wayland application can 100% load X11 plugin UIs without trouble, assuming XWayland is present. Try it! If you have Carla and Wayland, run "carla -platform wayland" (ignore project file warning) If the host calls into X11, it works

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