I recently performed a fresh installation of Manjaro KDE Plasma and encountered an issue when running it on Wayland. After booting, only the Manjaro Hello window appears, and the rest of the screen remains black. In contrast, everything appears to function correctly under X11.
I have tried several troubleshooting steps:
I used chroot to re-sync and reinstall the system.
I also verified the ISO file’s hash to ensure there were no issues with the installation media.
My system uses an AMD 5950X processor with an RTX 4090 GPU. I apologize for the lack of detailed logs; I am unsure if the logs obtained under X11 would be helpful for diagnosing this Wayland issue.
Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I navigate this problem.
You are trying to use Nvidia, KDE, and Wayland? Man! You are brave indeed!
Wayland combined with Nvidia is a known problem-generator. There is a fix or fixes in the works, but it’s just that: in the works. On the way to us plebs.
In contrast, as you mentioned, X11 does not have these issues. I am testing it out daily, myself, and I suggest you stick with X11. For now, at least.
What I have read here about the combination of wayland and Nvidia cards is that they are not a good mix.
There are quite a few posts here discussing such issues.
I’d use what works - and I can’t help to troubleshoot because I only run Plasma in a VM with a virtualized GPU.
Sorry for the not helpful noise.
Well, one major reason is that I use a 4K display and require 200% scaling for comfortable usage. While X11 is generally stable, I’ve encountered various minor but annoying issues with scaling on it. These issues range from blurry fonts to inconsistent UI elements makes me annoying.
but yes - you could do that.