Wayland Nvidia situation for initial Plasma 6 release
Kai Uwe Broulik
kde at privat.broulik.de
Wed Feb 7 09:37:13 GMT 2024
Hi,
plasma-integration already (which I am NOT happy about!) creates a GL
context to check whether to use software rendering, there we could also
check the GL_VENDOR and set basic render loop.
But backporting won’t hurt either way I’d say.
Cheers
Kai Uwe
Am 07.02.24 um 10:13 schrieb David Redondo:
> Hi,
>
> when using Wayland on Nvidia there is a significant problem that QtQuick
> windows freeze when resized, this can also manifest in plasma popups sometimes
> not showing up.
> ref. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-95817
> This can be worked around with using the basic render loop instead of the
> threaded one.
> With https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/536040 Qt will now
> disable threaded rendering on NVidia. However this patch missed 6.6.2 and will
> be released with 6.6.3. Given that 6.6.2 is the latest patch version released
> for Plasma 6.0 and the Wayland session is the new default we need to do
> something. Options that I can think of are
>
> - tell distros to include this patch in their QtWayland builds
> - disable threaded rendering in plasma-integration on Nvidia and running
> anything less than Qt 6.6.3
>
> Thoughts?
>
> David
>
>
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