I run proprietary Nvidia drivers as well and Wayland runs so much better than Xorg now that I’m permanently coming over to Wayland. I’m extremely happy rn with Wayland
How are the games, and especially Electron apps? Gotta know this.
I get 1080p 120fps consistently with my RTX 3050 Mobile and high refresh rates
Seems nice. Have you tried different types, like native, proton, older proton versions, lutris etc?
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If you can enable wayland / ozone electron apps do fine otherwise still flickery
Can use —disable-gpu instead for the rest if gpu acceleration isn’t important for the apps.
So there is a way-around, didn’t know about this. Is this the package
chromium-wayland-vaapi?You need to set some environment variable I think, and the app needs look for and obey it. Search ozone
I see, will look into it. Thanks.
Hyprland nvidia here, running without and issues so far for about a month
Same situation, but my machine just suddenly rebooted for no apparent reason 10 minutes ago. I hope Plasma 6 irons out these instabilities.
Same I wanna try KDE Plasma 6 and Pop!_OS’s cosmic desktop when they release. These projects look really cool
Same. If cosmic nails the basics, it could be the “new ubuntu but better” for new linix users.
I had nothing but issues running Wayland with Nvidia. How strange.
That’s because the drivers are bullshit but not the problem in general. They work well for some very specific cards, not at all for other and in general it’s just random hit or miss.
And then, to make it more fun, not all wayland compositors are born equal either.
Any recommendations? Or knowledge of which cards work best with it? I’m thinking on trying it out again, never tried it on my 3070
The best decision I made was buying an amd card. Drivers are baked into the kernel didn’t have to install shit. Works flawlessly
Oh and I used a 3070 with nobara and had tons of issues. I had less with pop os
Not to be flippant about it, but I just recommend trying it and seeing how it works for you. You can have both Xorg and Wayland installed, you just change out which one you’re using at the login window
Thanks! I may be capable but not necessarily knowledgeable, I had no idea that was an option lol
I’m just salty that I have bugs and other folk don’t. I’ll regret my username choice in the future for sure but for now, I’m just going to stubbornly stick by it until NVIDIA makes better drivers
username…? Olive…?
They username is WaylandHater26. that is their display name
Ah! Didn’t think of checking that!
It is the only thing I can associate with Wayland and Nvidia. What other possibilities can there be?
I waited for so long to buy an external trackpad for my desktop, Wayland on Nvidia is basically what was preventing me from getting it. After about a month or two of stability testing, it’s really great now, so since yesterday I can finally enjoy all the GNOME gestures that I enjoyed for so long on my laptop on my desktop as well!!
what driver and os?
I can recommend a hybrid setup. That works well with Wayland as long as you set that one kernel parameter. Otherwise the two GPUs won’t be in sync and you get glitches when using the dedicated one.
I use i3 and kde on void with an amd gpu, i tried kde wayland and sway (and i check on them every few weeks), but I’ve found them to be buggy and sway in particular to be very difficult. I honestly have no idea why it’s been like this for me, i look forward to the day wayland is truly as good as x11
KDE/Wayland has become stable for me with AMDGPU only in the last 6 months or so. They seemed to have had a lot of trouble on that.
Sway always worked for me, though.
KDE and Wayland works perfectly, at least if you are on 5.27 or even Plasma 6 beta.
For me the switch was simple the only issue I do encounter from time to time is lockscreen related. What’s not working for you?
Prolly the biggest thing is sometimes when i launch sway dmenu completely fails to work, and then on kde there’s little bugs that show up, one that comes to mind is the bar at the top of windows that has the max min and close buttons rendered completely transparent
Does anyone know a good screenshot tool for wayland?
I just been using gnomes built in screenshot tool
Flameshot should work.
I use Spectacle by KDE. Comes installed on Plasma and it’s always done a good job me.
If I could run Wayland with Nvidia I would actually go to the trouble of configuring Nix.
I need nightlight mode so x11 until then
The new version of plasma coming out on the 28th has this fixed on wayland. We’re currently on rc2, but fill release will be soon. It may be a bit before your distro has it available however so you’ll have to use a PPA on debian/ubuntu/etc., install manually once it’s available, or compile from source if you’de like it now
Are you using the new 550 drivers? They are supposed to include lots of wayland related fixes. I might try it myself once they update it on the arch repo. Last time I tried, my 2060 and 525 drivers just did not go with wayland, at all.
I too am at nvidia wayland. have fun
I keep trying Wayland and an in the middle of an attempt. I use fedora maniacally updated, Nvidia, and plasma shell. I’m about to abort again:
-even configured to directly use Wayland, I see chrome based browsers glitch out on occasion, and when it starts glitching it just keeps on glitching
-plasma panel stops updating multiple times a day, staying frozen including the clock
-sometimes kwin starts, but plasmashell has to run manually, and per above has to be restarted on occasion
-occasionally it just forgets what the monitor resolution is supposed to be and reverts to 1024x768
-the blur translucency effect glitches around mouse cursor
-immersedvr doesn’t support Wayland
On the flip side, xorg problems are: -occasionally kwin can’t grab keyboard for some effects until restarted. This is a well documented bug butt other than it being xorg specific, doesn’t seem to be figured out.
-some things tear in ugly ways, but not nearly as bad as the chrome glitch under Wayland.
Maybe kwin isn’t a great Wayland compositor, maybe Nvidia drivers are still not up to snuff. Ultimately, it’s not viable for me. Further kwin is a huge factor for “why Linux desktop” for me, gnome shell is more limited even than Windows for my workflows.
I had those same issues on my 3080. I switched to AMD and Kwin works great on Wayland.
I wonder. Does KWin still use the old workaround for Nvidia?
I remember gnome refusing to bend to Nvidia over eglstreams.
If Kwin is still using that workaround, even now after Nvidia conceded, maybe that is the problem.
I use i3 on a thinkpad p50 with hybrid graphics (Intel + nvidia). Works sort of stable if I force the use of the dedicated card, but I’m getting like 1,5h of battery.
Video acceleration seems to work most of the times, but for a few weeks I have problems with picom freezing my screen, capping fps in games and video. Any ideas? It took me hours to have it running sort of smooth, so I’m hesitant to try out sway and ruin my daily setup
Why are you forcing i3 to use the dedicated GPU?
AFAIK sway doesn’t work with proprietary Nvidia drivers
I’d love to run hybrid graphics with free drivers, don’t get me wrong.
I also love running steam games and video acceleration and with my previous setup it was mostly unstable. My current setup just works, with minor effects like reduced battery times and picom bugs.
I’m just trying to learn the reasoning behind your decision. I ran i3 on multiple devices, the newest one being a t480, and never had any issues with the integrated graphics.
Are you also forcing picom to use the dedicated GPU?
Seems like a waste, unless you’re playing one of those games that runs better on the integrated than on the dedicated.
My setup is 4k on two displays. The Intel GPU can’t handle them on 60Hz I guess. There is a thinkpad dock involved as well, so I think I’m stuck with HDMI and the dedicated gpu. I tried a lot of things :/
My setup is 4k on two displays
on a 9 year old laptop, and you even game on it, God damn dude!
I3 shouldn’t really be impacted AFAIK, but I’d drop picom completely just to save some cycles. It’s not like you have resources to spare on aesthetics.
