Why can't I get a higher refresh rate on wayland as I did on Xorg?

Q&A
1

I did try a google search but all of them seem to be too old or just no longer exist after an update.

I can set the display at 120hz in Xorg but only 60hz in Wayland.

2

tried xrandr ?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

3

You know your stuff and you obviously know Xrandr won’t work for Wayland.

But for the OP as far as I know gnome Wayland doesn’t support refresh rates higher than 60. If you use sway window manager, you can set your refresh rate higher.

4

Ahh yes. Xrandr doesn’t work with wayland.

5

Try setting refresh rate with Weston:

https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/weston/weston-drm.7.en.html

Specifically, you need mode=widthxheight@refresh_rate

Some example configs:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Weston