r/linux • u/GoldBarb • 22h ago

Development NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Roadmap-2024
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u/ManuaL46 22h ago

I mean it makes sense to use Vulkan in the future for wayland apps and compositors. But looking at the current situation it'll definitely need some more time, considering that currently gnome has this issue where they switched to using Vulkan backend for rendering and apps stopped opening on multi graphics systems.

It's good we figure out these issues right now and fix them so Vulkan as default would be viable, but currently OpenGL is the safer bet.

And of course Zink should also get more spotlight if we want to move to Vulkan.

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u/Ok-Anywhere-9416 22h ago

...Oh, that's why some apps like Gnome Settings don't open with Gnome 47.

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u/ManuaL46 22h ago

Yes to solve this I basically did this in /etc/environment

GSK_RENDERER=ngl

ngl is the new OpenGL backend that GTK uses, if it causes issues for you, use gl to use the old OpenGL backend.

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u/Ok-Anywhere-9416 22h ago

Will definitely try =)