Update README.md with more Wayland

Adds a call to action on how to improve Wayland support in Alacritty.
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on another machine which is connected to Alacritty via SSH, this issue
disappears. Actual throughput and rendering performance are still better in
Alacritty.
- _Is wayland supported?_ Sort of, but not everything works. To prefer X11 over
Wayland (e.g. for use on XWayland) launch Alacritty like this:
`env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= alacritty`
- _When will Windows support be available?_ When someone has time to work on it.
Contributors would be welcomed :).
- _My arrow keys don't work_. It sounds like you deleted some key bindings from
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Alacritty discussion can be found in `#alacritty` on freenode.
## Wayland
Wayland support is available, but not everything works as expected. Many people
have found a better experience using XWayland which can be achieved launching
Alacritty with the `WAYLAND_DISPLAY` environment variable cleared:
```sh
env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= alacritty
```
If you're interested in seeing our Wayland support improve, please head over to
the [Wayland meta issue] on the _winit_ project to see how you may contribute.
## License
Alacritty is released under the [Apache License, Version 2.0].
[Apache License, Version 2.0]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/blob/readme/LICENSE-APACHE
[tmux]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux
[Wayland meta issue]: https://github.com/tomaka/winit/issues/306