Emulator defaults to Xwayland despite having Wayland support

[C0rn3j]

Is this intended?

unsetting DISPLAY makes it run under native Wayland, which is preferable, unless there are some major issues, but it seems to work fine on my machine™.

Keeping the possibility to override it to Xwayland would of course make sense.

[ngoquang2708]

It because of this libsdl-org/SDL#9383.

[ngoquang2708]

I made a PR to force Wayland #1827 but decided that just wait for DEs to implement required protocols.

[C0rn3j]

One of the needed protocols was just pushed a release behind for kwin which I use... https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/6474

But I suppose this is then resolved on shad's side, as it will eventually default to Wayland on its own.

It is worth to mention that messing with DISPLAY is the wrong way to do this based on reading that thread, and export SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland; shadps4 is actually the way to go.