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Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?
(blog.tenstral.net)
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Meanwhile, after updating my nvidia driver to 545.x, I can no longer play games on Wayland due to heavy flickering. Ah well, at least I can still switch to X11 for gaming. But Nvidia really drag their asses when it comes to Wayland (or linux gaming in general) support.
Gaming still works fine for me on 545. It's just that every other XWayland program flickers endlessly. Thunderbird, Freetube, Bitwarden...
God I hope NVK is the driver I'm using happily by the end of this year.
I haven't checked, but Freetube and Bitwarden sound like they're just electron apps, running them with
--ozone-platform-hint=auto
enables Wayland detection. You can add it to the app's.desktop
file if it works.I'd completely forgotten about that. I do that for Signal already. Thanks for the tip! Bitwarden finally doesn't lag (that was annoying the hell out of me) but Freetube is still a stuttery mess. FreeTube is an Electron-based program, so no idea...
(I just remembered I could startup Thunderbird with
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
too)It's mainly just Steam that's horrible...really, the worst one of the lot by far. Massive flickering in the client. Games themselves work fine though.