Official Experimental Wayland Support for Linux Player

Hello Unity Developers on Linux,


As a continued effort to support the latest Ubuntu versions 22.04 and forward, Unity is experimenting with the support for the wayland desktop environment for the linux player builds on Unity 2023.1.x.


Wayland is a new windowing protocol aiming to replace legacy X11 with flexibility, security and performance improvements. It is being under active development and released its stable version last year. It will be the default protocol on Ubuntu 22.04. However, due to the current instability in the graphics drivers, the support is only limited to AMD and Intel GPUs which use the mesa driver with wayland.


A command line argument “-force-wayland” needs to be passed when launching the player. The player is currently default to xwayland.


Please stay tuned for more updates.

 

This is in also our roadmap, but will not start until we feel things are more stable with wayland.

 

unfortunately we currently are still evaluating the wayland support in the editor. The idea is we will catch up if ubuntu decides to ship it by default in their new LTS, which i believe is 24.04 ATM.