Horrible XWayland mouse lag after time

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Zorin 17.1pro
AMD Ryzen / RX6700xt System 32GB Memory

Found something that is based on Ubuntu Jammy and very annoying. Working or playing games for hours without reboot, sends wayland to mouse lag. Feels like a rubberband and get worse with more runtime. Means, the pointer stay a while and jumps over to next position instead of fluid movement. Same for text scroll.
Some research found the same problem on every linuxs distro from 2022, that use the same wayland base. Lots of angry people talk about that.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/wj7jji/mouse_lag_on_fresh_install_of_2204_lts_bug/]
Bugreport itself

This is bug is 2 years after report unfixed, there is a wayland mutter version 44.3 that was released as fix, but ubuntu has no interest to push it out to the people. It seems also to be fixed in ubuntu 24.04lts with a much newer wayland version.

Two Real fixes are possible for you

  • 1 Reboot your linux every few hours, what will calm the mouse lag
  • 2 Switch at login lower right to X11 session and all is okay

Hanselinux

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Still another reason for Zorin to ditch Wayland, or at the very least have xorg the default compositor like Plasma does.

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We have both and i hope it stays that way :grinning: Heard also that for gaming there is a 'translator' xwayland required that mangles game performance down.

We will see, if Zeorin 18 jumps onto the table :thinking:

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I think it is called Wayland on X - If xorg/X11 can do all this, why bother with Wayland? It is just being pushed by the big boys who probably are wanting to effectively kill GNU/Linux off!

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I'm so happy we can switch that and choose X11. My desktop runs all the sort of windows games with pretty performance and OBS can record the stuff nicely.
In the moment i'm configuring my Acer Nitro, it's seems to handle wayland a bit better.

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I like to game. While "big boys" are experimenting with Wayland, what's stopping me to fetch old Windows 10 ISO from the cellar and switch back to Bills "good ole" OS?
And I hate dual booting.

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