Questions tagged [wayland]
A display server protocol that is intended to replace the X Window System. Wayland is a rewrite from the ground up of the Linux graphical display subsystem.
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Wayland with multiple GPUs
I have a Vulkan application, I want to use iGPU(AMD) that has no monitors attached for Vulkan while running Wayland on dGPU(Nvidia). When I pick AMD physical device swapchain creation fails with [...
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mpv cursor does not change near window borders under Wayland (GNOME Shell)
I'm running mpv on a Wayland session with GNOME Shell. When hovering near the edges of the mpv window, the mouse cursor does not change, making it hard to see the window boundaries or know where to ...
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GNOME 49.1 unable to start after an update
So I ran yay and updated my stuff after a long time. The next day I login and the GDM login screen just freezes. Oh well. Time to ditch the login manager, I think. yay ly. Logging into Gnome on ...
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Why is a drag-and-drop screen shown persistently after copying some items?
I'm using Firefox on KDE on Wayland. When I copy or drag-and-drop some texts or files from anywhere, suddenly various websites like Google Drive, Facebook or Claude display a full-screen drag-and-drop ...
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How can I reset the GNOME keyboard layout without access to the GNOME session?
I tried, out of curiosity, to set my keyboard layout on my Arch Linux tablet* with Gnome to one that appeared with a name like "A custom user-defined layout," which showed as being all blank ...
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Color banding in Qt OpenGL applications?
I'm running KDE on Wayland. I've noticed that some Qt applications that render using OpenGL show significant color banding, as if they're running with less-than-24-bit color. What could be causing ...
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Spotify instantly crashes on sway on arch linux
I have installed spotify from AUR on my arch linux install with sway. local/spotify 1:1.2.63.394-1 A proprietary music streaming service When I try to run it, it instantly crashes with exit code ...
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Is it possible to record audio on a wayland desktop with ffmpeg?
I've figured out a way to capture video on wayland (hyprland) with ffmpeg, but that method does not cover audio. Most people on wayland will be using pipewire, pipewire has a compatibility layer for ...
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