I understand that nvidia support for wayland is lacking, but I know it’s possible.
For context, I was using sway 1.8 for a while (no official support for nvidia). It was working almost perfectly, only minor issues. After the update to 1.9, I get constant flickering.
I can downgrade to 1.8, but the fact that 1.8 was working tells me that it is possible for a window manager to work well for nvidia. The problem is the sway team does not want that headache (understandably so).
Are there any alternatives that work well with nvidia?
- Zamundaaa ( @Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de ) English8•1 month ago
the fact that 1.8 was working tells me that it is possible for a window manager to work well for nvidia
Nope, it’s a race condition for which the visible effects can appear or disappear for plenty of reasons. The only fix is explicit sync, which is being worked on for wlroots
- yala ( @yala@discuss.online ) 6•1 month ago
Until its drivers are completely open source, Nvidia will continue to cause trouble every once in a while.
Therefore, if you liked Sway, then don’t leave it expecting to be a lot better elsewhere.
However, Hyprland’s community is pretty big and I can only be positive regarding the pace of its development. Therefore, if anything, Hyprland might be able to offer a solution. But, don’t forget what I said earlier*.
- KindaABigDyl ( @KindaABigDyl@programming.dev ) 5•1 month ago
Hyprland works great as long as you make sure to get the build with nvidia patches to prevent flickering. It’s very similar to i3, although not 1:1 like sway.
- SmoochyPit ( @SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 month ago
I don’t think there’s a separate build with Nvidia patches now (at least on the AUR), as they’re included/fixed upstream. Still plenty of config and environment variables to set on Nvidia. And the new Nvidia beta driver, 555, should fix flickering in xwayland windows that was caused by a lack of explicit sync support. It’s been working well for me so far!
- furzegulo1312 ( @furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•1 month ago
i use kde plasma with polonium with zero issues
- Joe ( @jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•1 month ago
labwc is working pretty well these days. Screen tearing for games and all.
There are a bunch of environment variables that I set this time though, which may have contributed to a better experience this time.
- Sina ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) 1•26 days ago
Labwc is quite possibly the most stable and sane Wayland WM there is today, but op wanted a tiler. (Sway does crash every once in a while, Labwc doesn’t and the devs are more open minded about features)
- Joe ( @jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•26 days ago
Regions give manual tiling possibility though, which is actually how I prefer it. I’m testing a new patch that someone recently did to support focus based on region, which is nifty.