Flickering all the time on Wayland
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@seanjseymour Thanks for the tip, I've tried that but for me it resulted in OpenGL being disabled in Figma, Penpot and similar apps that use hardware acceleration - so they are unusable with that setting for me.
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There is an ongoing issue with Mesa that affects certain GPU's, the AMD Radeon HD-5450 in my other desktop, is one of them. I disabled Hardware Acceleration in the Vivaldi settings as a workaround. It was said Mesa 24.1 will fix this.
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@edwardp said in Flickering all the time on Wayland:
Vivaldi does not officially support Wayland
The problem is not so much because of this, but because of the combination
@voyager1sun said in Flickering all the time on Wayland:
Wayland
NVIDIA -
@voyager1sun said in Flickering all the time on Wayland:
switched to Wayland
In KDE Neon, you can't run Plasma with X11?
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@sedative29rus you can, but Wayland offers some advantages and is the main focus for Plasma developers going forward
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You can try setting this -> vivaldi://flags/#ozone-platform-hint to wayland. It causes some, but also fixes some, issues.
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Setting the flag as described above didn't help for me. In fact, it made Vivaldi start up on a blank window and then stall (I had to kill the process).
But starting it as follows from the command line did help:
vivaldi --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=waylandI am on Plasma 6 and using the nvidia driver.
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@jogojapan , @voyager1sun for decades,
nvidia =
in terms of supporting Linuxthus => nvidia + Wayland = another disaster
But... they are finally doing something by supporting explicit GPU synchronization in their 555 drivers, which GNOME, KDE and mesa already support, so things should get better in the near future (no flickering).
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@jogojapan That was my experience when I tried that flag, it opened up a blank window on Wayland. With the flag on Auto, Vivaldi launches fine, but I don't know which setting it is actually using, plus I'm not noticing any difference on-screen between Wayland and X11.
No issue with the flag on Default (uses X11).
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I had the same problem with the latest zorin 17 which also uses wayland. If I switch ozone to anything other than default it will die and if I don't disable hardware acceleration at some point the browser will cause my laptop to freeze. I really hope the linux version of vivaldi starts getting some attention and this is dealt with because if I have to switch between changing my entire distro or my browser I know what I will do. And I suspect many others will. Which will be bad because I also suspect vivaldi appeals disprotionately more to linux users.
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@sedative29rus Wayland is a more secure windowing system than X11. Unfortunately, X11 has greater support. Canocial may switch to using it in the future as the primary according to their help documents.
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