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Wayland tiling compositor that will work okay with nvidia? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.