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.
In the coming months, an important protocol will be merged to Wayland and xorg, and the next Nvidia driver release will have support for that protocol. This will make the Nvidia Wayland experience 100x better
Yeah, also waiting for it. Until the protocol is implemented, I have to use driver 535 without HDR support. :(
I tried Plasma 6 + Wayland on Arch btw earlier today, ran into the first issues in like 3 minutes after installation and switched back to Xorg for good. Wayland never worked for me. Yes it's much more smooth and has nice features but it just never works that well on my machines. Btw for all the Wayland bodyguards, it was on Intel integrated graphics, not on NVidia or anything like that
Damned, this is so frustrating when you cannot switch yet. Not like Wayland is perfect anyway but I felt the same with pipewire where the new system as some needed improvement but the switch is harsh.
Never had issues with Pipewire smh. I didn't even notice the transition
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.
Feels great so far, discord screen-sharing is not there but can be done from Firefox if needed so OK for me.
I believe someone is maintaining a modified version of discord for Linux that has working screen sharing.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/discord-screenaudio
You should try one huge monitor and use an addon that let you snap windows to 1/4, 1/2 of the screen, etc (30+ inches).... Been using Wayland for years with no problems
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
Same, this is also the first time that I am able to use wayland on my nvidia card. There are still issues, but there are being worked out. 6.0.2 solved the issue with plasmashell just quitting whenever I turned one of my monitors off.
You can likely screen share a window but not your full screen on discord.
I can do this on Wayland it's just slow because no av1 support for AMD from discord.
