Title, I can’t switch to Wayland because of nVidia (and because I love Awesome WM).
X11 doesn’t limit it, but you will want to enable “Force composition pipeline” to prevent screen tearing. nvidia and Wayland work together btw. It’s not a match made in heaven but they do work.
It’s simply not worth it. I used Wayland for a couple years but ended up switching back to X11 on nVidia hardware.
I think forcing pipeline enables vsync or something because there is noticeable input delay when playing on 60hz screen.
Why can’t you have Wayland with Nvidia?
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Backend hackery? You just install it and it works
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What display manager do you use? There’s a very very short list of ones that support wayland sessions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Display_managers . And some of those don’t display themselves using wayland, they can only launch sessions.
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OK then
True.
I mostly use fedora. I never had an issue with my 1080 or laptops 1060… But those are old now…
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I love my AwesomeWM setup. Unless someone completely rewrites it, it will never work with Wayland (as far as I have read the gh issues).
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I need this PC to “just work” and I have seen a lot of problems with Wayland and Nvidia drivers, top-quality gaming is a secondary on this one so X11 has been the choice.
Though I am aware stuff is getting better, should probably try it anyway
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Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yyyyyyyyeeeeeeesssssssssss…
No. I have a 144Hz monitor and a 60Hz monitor and both work at their maximum frame rate.
Thank you everyone, was rather sure that variable refresh rates of different monitors were a hard problem for X11.
So, in nvidia-settings I made my 120Hz one the primary and set the refresh rate from auto to the highest for both monitors (120, 60)
The only difference I noticed was that easyeffects window is now completely unreadable, somehow the text and frames bleeds out/blurs and only gets sharp when hovered with mouse but still buggy. Force-compositon-pipeline did not help there.
Will have to diagnose tomorrow.Edit: here’s the relevant commit that addresses this (I think).
No. I can’t remember what the default behaviour is now. But that isn’t true anymore. Source: I’m currently on X11 and my 144 Hz works next to my 75 Hz one with nvidia.
Are you sure your are running nvidias drivers? Not the generic ones?
Yeah pretty sure, nvtop, nvidia-settings etc