I installed Manjaro yesterday with Architect on a box that also has Fedora 33 (default Wayland), and Pop!_OS 20.4 (with Wayland enabled). I’m somewhat inexperienced with Linux (but computer savvy), so I’m testing these distros to determine which I prefer.
I enabled Wayland on Manjaro with ‘‘WaylandEnable=true’’ in /etc/gdm/custom.conf and restarted my session in Wayland. When I started Firefox brower, the window did not render properly but I could see an outline and “Firefox” in the top bar. There was also some flickering and repeated redrawing when I tried to open other apps, which I was able to remedy by right-clicking Firefox on the top bar and selecting Quit. I noted that Terminal, Text Editor, and Epiphany (all native Gnome apps?) seem to work fine, so I installed Chromium and VLC to see if it was a Firefox issue. Chromium and VLC also had rendering issues—all black windows.
I need Wayland to work because I get screen tearing when scrolling. I don’t have any issues with Gnome on Wayland in Fedora 33 and Pop!_OS on this same box, and I have no idea where to start to see if I can get this issue fixed in Manjaro. Any ideas?
Here is the $ inxi -Fazy ouput when logged in with Wayland:
System:
Kernel: 5.11.0-1-MANJARO x86_64
bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.11-x86_64
root=UUID=0d4cc8bd-67d2-453e-85ac-749981b6a5ab
ro rootflags=subvol=@
cryptdevice=UUID=8e4bf32e-e624-4da7-9460-77c87e271ac0:cryptroot quiet
udev.log_priority=3
Console: N/A
wm: gnome-shell
dm: GDM 3.38.2.1
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ACER product: Aspire M5630 v: R01-A2 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ACER model: EG31M v: R01-C2 serial: <filter> BIOS: ACER v: R01-C2
date: 11/27/2008
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Core Merom family: 6 model-id: F (15) stepping: B (11) microcode: BA
L1 cache: 128 KiB L2 cache: 4 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19158
Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1603/2403 MHz base/boost: 2400/2400 volts: 1.3 V
ext-clock: 267 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1596 3: 1596 4: 1597
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: EPT disabled
Type: mds
status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics vendor: Elite Systems
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:29c2
Display: server: X.org 1.20.10
compositor: gnome-shell
driver: loaded: intel
unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.3
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Elite Systems
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:27d8
Device-2: Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-4:4 chip ID: 046d:0990
serial: <filter>
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Elite Systems driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d800 bus ID: 02:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: ens33 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.28 TiB used: 7.04 GiB (0.5%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST3802110A
size: 74.53 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown>
serial: <filter> rev: H
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST340016A
size: 37.27 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown>
serial: <filter> rev: 3.19
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital model: WD2000JD-22HBB0
size: 186.31 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown>
serial: <filter> rev: 2D08
ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Seagate model: ST31000524AS
size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown>
serial: <filter> rev: JC45
ID-5: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Seagate model: ST380815AS
size: 74.54 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown>
serial: <filter> rev: A
ID-6: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 type: USB model: USB2.0 Flash Disk
size: 3.89 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter>
rev: 2.50
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 85.81 GiB size: 85.81 GiB (100.00%) used: 7.04 GiB (8.2%)
fs: btrfs block size: 4096 B dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0 mapped: cryptroot
ID-2: /home raw size: 85.81 GiB size: 85.81 GiB (100.00%)
used: 7.04 GiB (8.2%) fs: btrfs block size: 4096 B dev: /dev/dm-0
maj-min: 254:0 mapped: cryptroot
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache pressure: 50 (default 100)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1 mapped: cryptswap
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 229 Uptime: 20m wakeups: 0
Memory: 3.83 GiB used: 1.02 GiB (26.7%)
Init: systemd v: 247
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
Packages: pacman: 1169 lib: 290 flatpak: 0
Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.0
running in: gnome-terminal
inxi: 3.2.02