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?

  • matcha_addict@lemy.lolOP
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    5 months ago

    I tried it about a year ago. I don’t remember why I left it, but I think I did have a couple issues with it related to nvidia. I’ll try it again.

    • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I have had a few issues with Hyprland / nVidia, ultimately making me abandon hyprland as much as I absolutely loved it.

      I couldn’t work with TexStudio and Electron apps were at best buggy.

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      If you’re hopping distros at the same time, CachyOS should just work out of the box with Hyprland.

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      Get the Nvidia 555 beta drivers or you’ll have flickering. There’s Nvidia specific config in the hyprland docs as well. In addition, if it’s a newer card make sure you disable the onboard firmware via Kernal params.

      I have been using hyprland for a while and just switched to using my Nvidia card yesterday. Been running well so far.