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What are the sideffects of gamescope? Can I specify which monitor the game is running?
Used to be really finnicky but lately (last 6 months let's say) it's worked just fine. The only downside is that it might get hanged in the background and steam will show the game still running.
So it's a layer that says "bro I got this, don't mind that I run this game in the background and let take care of resolution with Hz"?
It's basically a compositor, on top or your main compositor. So games aren't aware of the outer compositor (which will be Gnome or KDE or whatever) and just see a display with whatever dimensions you give to it.
Hmm isn't that inefficient?