Using Wayland With Nvidia Drivers
Wayland does not play well with proprietary drivers especially with
Nvidia. But some time installing Nvidia drivers to use with Evonycontrol,
which is way better than any Nvidia Optimus System Managers. If you are
using Gnome, it will automatically disable Wayland upon first install.
But with Linux, there is always way around.
First of all, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and see and comment out the
line containing WaylandEnable=false. This file should look like after
editing
# GDM configuration storage daemon
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable=false
[security]
[xdmcp]
[chooser]
[debug]
# Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging
#Enable=true
Edit /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules and comment out below two
lines. This is the only case in my experience.
LABEL="gdm_prefer_xorg"
# RUN+="/usr/lib/gdm-runtime-config set daemon PreferredDisplayServer xorg"
GOTO="gdm_end"
LABEL="gdm_disable_wayland"
# RUN+="/usr/lib/gdm-runtime-config set daemon WaylandEnable false"
GOTO="gdm_end"
kms-modifiers must be enabled through gsettings. Try the following
command
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features '["kms-modifiers"]
Enable modesetting for nvdia drivers. Follow the Arch Wiki Instructions
Also make sure to double check xorg-xwayland and egl-wayland are
installed. The most important thing, Reboot your system.
Congratulations, Gnome is running with Wayland despite Nvidia drivers.
This will only work for arch linux. I have not tried it on any other
Linux.