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?

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    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

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    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*.

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    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.

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      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!

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    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.

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      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)

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        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.

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    Hyprland is my favorite tilling manager for Wayland. Its really easy to customize or find dotfiles. I have some if you want them.

    If you want something that just works, popos-shell gnome plugin

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      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.

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        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.