So both Sway and Hyprland now support Waylands’ tearing protocol. I was wondering whether it is possible to create window rules for these WMs that allow tearing in all games launched via Steam. Something like: For Sway for_window [class=“steam_app_*”] allow_tearing yes

and for Hyprland windowrulev2 = immediate, class:^(steam_app_*)$

Does anybody know whether something like this would work? You know, instead of having to create an entry for every single game.

Edit: As mranderson17 said, allow tearing isn’t in the latest release versions of Sway or Hyprland at the time of writing.

Edit2: mranderson17 gave what could possibly be the right answer:

For Sway for_window [class=“steam_app_.*”] allow_tearing yes

For Hyprland (maybe) windowrulev2 = immediate, class:^(steam_app_.*)$

I haven’t tested it yet. But unless you think he’s wrong give him your “thumbs up”.

  • Zenzio@fedia.ioOP
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    2 months ago

    I usually don’t use gamescope. So I’m looking at the first of your two examples and I’m not sure I follow. The class is “steam_app_1066890”, right? The number at the end should change with every game installed by Steam. It’s a unique identifier Steam seems to use for all the games on Steam. So how does the class stay the same for your games? And thanks for noting that allow_tearing isn’t in any current release at the time of writing. It’s the same for Hyprland. I should have mentionend that.

    • mranderson17@infosec.pub
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      2 months ago

      Ah, I should have been more clear. The CRITERIA section of the sway documentation states that class matches support regex, so instead of using a * as you did in your example you’d use a regex any .*. So I think (untested of course) that for_window [class="steam_app_.*"] allow_tearing yes should work.

      The comment in the code for allow_tearing notes that it must be enabled on the output as well. Here is the relevant output documentation. There are several other notes/recommendations there as well you should probably pay attention to.

      • Zenzio@fedia.ioOP
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        2 months ago

        Thank you, I will add this to my Sway config (and change it for Hyprland as well).