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So, I need nvidia proprietary drivers, use a window manager that doesn't support wayland (cwm), do I have any options besides using Xorg? I think the answer is

by smabie 6y ago

So, I need nvidia proprietary drivers, use a window manager that doesn't support wayland (cwm), do I have any options besides using Xorg? I think the answer is no, but I'm not super well versed in these things. Xorg seems to work just great for me, not sure what all the fuss is about. But then again, I'm not an expert, so I'm happy to adopt any other solution, assuming I can get fast graphics/cuda at 144hz and use my favorite window manager, cwm.

johncolanduoni 6y ago
Compositors are starting to implement Wayland EGLStreams support, but it’s very shaky at the moment. As always, X works fine in some setups but is hopelessly broken in others (e.g. multiple NVidia GPUs connected to multiple monitors).
- dreamer_ 6y ago
  AFAIK Gnome and KDE already have EGLStreams support in place, but it does not work for XWayland because incompatibilities in NVIDIA-maintained libraries.
- babypuncher 6y ago
  Kwin supposedly got it over a year ago, but trying to boot into a Plasma Wayland session on Nvidia still kicks me back to a TTY. I'm not convinced it will ever actually happen.