The day is finally here. Xwayland now has the code for Explicit GPU Synchronization merged after waiting over a year for everything to be ready.

This merge resquest has finally been merged into XWayland, which means NVIDIA users are just one beta driver release away (May 15th) from probably having a good experience on Wayland now!

  • RustmilianEnglish
    6•3 months ago

    It’s definitely a large leep, but it’s not going to solve everything. I’d say it brings us to ~85% completion. There’s still a lot of smaller issues in need of fixing, and some issues unique to specific problem cards. Nvidia needs to put in that last 10% and the community needs to put in that last 4%. The 1% are the tiny bugs spread across the ecosystem that’ll get fixed overtime.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
      -2•3 months ago

      Nvidia shouldn’t need to put anything in. It’s entirely Waylands fault that it does not work well with the already existing hardware and drivers environment.

      Nvidia is shit for so many reasons but not because Wayland doesn’t work well with it.

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
          0•3 months ago

          Did they worked together with X11 to the same extend they need to work together with Wayland?

          • RustmilianEnglish
            4•3 months ago

            If Nvidia had worked together on Xorg, we wouldn’t have had all of those shitty Nvidia unique x11 bugs with Nvidia’s crappy proprietary drivers in the past.

            • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
              1•3 months ago

              Cannot confirm any Nvidia unique X11 bugs since everything works perfectly fine since a decade or so for me – but tons of Nvidia unique Wayland bugs (same driver version and same card). I am not quite sure if Nvidia are really the bad one in this specific case.

              My whole invironment is full of stuff to make Wayland actually work with Nvidia.

              $ cat .config/labwc/environment 
GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=wlr
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

              Not one single line of configuration is used for X11.

      • RustmilianEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        Nvidia’s failure to implement the spec correctly is solely their own.

          • RustmilianEnglish
            4•3 months ago

            It’s the car manufacturers failure when they can’t properly put their tires on to safely drive on the road or put on tires that weren’t up to code to begin with.