{"id":6892,"date":"2026-07-01T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:25:37","slug":"steamdeck-and-wayland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/steamdeck-and-wayland\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Deck and Wayland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A while ago, Steam OS 3.8 was released. Among its many improvements, it includes a particularly important one for the Desktop Mode: it finally uses a Wayland session by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many reasons why this is important for both us and our users. It is more stable, more feature-rich, and does a better job showcasing what Plasma can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, though, I just want to highlight one neat little feature that is especially handy on a touchscreen device like the Steam Deck: touchscreen gestures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SteamOS 3.8 Desktop Gestures\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YkBJnffGpoE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of the box, a three-finger vertical swipe enters Overview mode, showing thumbnails of all open windows. This provides a much more touch-friendly way to multitask, and you can also close a window with a downward swipe gesture. Of course this is a feature available on any device with a touchscreen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, Steam OS 3.8 was released. Among its many improvements, it includes a particularly important one for the Desktop Mode: it finally uses a Wayland session by default. There are many reasons why this is important for both us and our users. It is more stable, more feature-rich, and does a better job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[2,7,203,61,153],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blabla","category-software","tag-kde","tag-plasma","tag-steam-os","tag-touchscreen","tag-wayland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}