Just wanted to share for the 10 people like me who has with an Nvidia + dual screen setup on ArchLinux (btw) with KDE Plasma desktop that since the new plasma 6 update I can finally use the Wayland session option!

The wayland should work has been around for the last 5 years and 5 years ago it was not even close, then 1 or 2 years ago it started not crashing but multi-screen was not OK (I tried all the kernel and driver parameters).

Now for me and my 5+ years-old setup (probably a lot of legacy plasma settings in my .config) it was finally seamless.

From previous tries I already knew that the desktop feels WAY smoother (true 60 fps everywhere, specially for the video players in web browser).

Feels great so far, discord screen-sharing is not there but can be done from Firefox if needed so OK for me.

I hope this post will be informative for some like me who tried several time over the years and didn’t had much hope.

PS : the cursor has a weirdly strong outline (too shiny to my taste) feels like unintended but not a big problem. I spent 30 mins in the options but couldn’t find anything about that.

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Yeah wayland on KDE+nvidia is pretty much perfect now, the only problems I have are xwayland stuttering and the KDE drawing tablet config not mapping out my tablet’s scroll wheel. Both of these issues mean it’s pretty much impossible for me to get any work done in krita lol, but I’m sure it’ll continue to get better.

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Mind telling how does Krita works for You under xwayland? I am using Krita in flatpak under wayland gnome and Im getting a lot of flickering and gui turning black xD

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Nvidia gpu ofc

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Yeah it’s pretty much the same for me.

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Same setup but with gnome. My video screen recorder broke: simplescreenrecorder for which I have not yet found a solution.

Also Mathpix anyone familiar? Just straigh out don’t work

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Neat, naive question, what’s the impact on Steam/Proton?

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Wine is fine so I guess proton would be.

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Welcome to Wayland, the Way(land) of the Future! ducks, flees!

But really, welcome to the Wayland club ;P

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My experience with this setup is generally:

  • login to a black screen
  • try to switch windows or desktops, then something appears with glitchy green animations
  • get annoyed
  • go back to x

I’m sure I missed something stupid like installing drivers properly, but I’ve been too busy / lazy to fix it.

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You need to enable DRM KMS on Nvidia.

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Thanks 🙂

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