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?

  • Joe
    4·
    7 months 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@beehaw.org
      1·
      7 months 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
        2·
        7 months 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.