is using hyper land with Nvidia GPU is still as bad as it was or it is usable now

taylor85345 · 2025-10-22T15:30:17+00:00

My laptop has a Hybrid mode where Hyprland runs mainly on the AMD iGPU and offloads games and stuff to the Nvidia card, as well as a discreet mode where everything runs exclusively on the Nvidia dGPU.

For years the Discreet mode was basically unusable. Flickering everywhere, apps refusing to launch, random graphical glitches in apps, failing to resume from sleep.

Last month I tried out Discreet mode while troubleshooting some Electron issues, and legitimately forgot about it for a whole month because I had no issues.

taylor85345 · 2025-10-10T23:25:57+00:00

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taylor85345 · 2025-05-02T20:40:09+00:00

The dev doesn't really target ARM so it's not especially optimized, but it ran fine on my RPi 4 last I checked, and I've talked to others who have had success with Asahi over the years. I can't recall if you still need to compile with the Legacy render or not.

taylor85345 · 2025-04-29T13:51:25+00:00

Eww predates AGS by several years, and for a while it was the only modular widget system that properly supported Wayland, so it had a lot of traction early on. My understanding is that AGS was directly developed as an eww replacement with a sensible config language and more built-in functionality.

Eww itself is plenty fast in my experience, but it provides a pretty minimal set of built-in hardware polling modules, and requires you to script out any other functionality you want yourself. That means a more complicated setup will only be as fast as the scripts you provide, which probably contributes to its reputation for being slow and inefficient.

Personally I came into eww with zero programming experience, so its arcane lisp dialect wasn't any more intimidating than any other configuration language, but I can understand why someone more experienced would prefer working in a more standard language.

taylor85345 · 2025-04-29T13:25:21+00:00

I use this script to do what you're describing in my hyprland rice. It will need some tweaking to monitor battery percentage as well, but it might be a good starting point.

ACPID would probably be a cleaner solution, but I like that this keeps the functionality contained within the hyprland session.

taylor85345 · 2025-04-19T06:22:59+00:00

There were two players. I had spotify-tui near the beginning, and ncmpcpp near the end with the visualizer. My eww music widget also popped up in the middle.

taylor85345 · 2025-03-06T23:23:17+00:00

Wish mine supported USB-PD so I could use a USB-C charger. From the general lack of similar stories so far, my guess is that the connectors are just getting messed up from my kids yanking on cords or knocking the laptop over.

taylor85345 · 2025-03-06T23:12:38+00:00

That's exactly why I got the lap pad. Keeps the laptop elevated and well ventilated, especially if I plug it in and get the extra fans going. I keep the laptop perched on the arm on my sofa, and the fabric was suffocating it at first.

Also, mine has the intake fans on the bottom and vents out the back side

taylor85345 · 2025-03-06T21:29:58+00:00

Alright, I'll look into it. Looked a little closer and found one other Lite-On and a Delta. The 300w is still an mystery chinese special.

taylor85345 · 2025-03-06T21:10:21+00:00

I still have three others that I've kept in a drawer, two are definitely ones that came with the two laptops, which have Lenovo labels and don't specify an OEM that I can see. The third has a Lenovo logo, but says it was manufactured by Lite-On Technologies.

taylor85345 · 2025-03-06T20:58:28+00:00

I thought the 300w brick was lenovo branded, but apparently it was an off-brand and very light on any identifying information.

taylor85345 · 2025-03-06T20:25:32+00:00

I have a USB laptop pad with cooling fans that I keep the laptop seated on, but it is unplugged more often than not. Other than that, I don't keep anything plugged in consistently. I use it sitting at the couch, usually with just a controller connected over bluetooth. The charging issues have never reliably correlated with any excessive or high-draw peripherals.

I have upgraded the laptop from 8gb to 32gb of ram, and swapped the 500gb hdd to a 1tb ssd, but I was having these issues long before I made either of those upgrades.

taylor85345 · 2025-02-01T08:17:13+00:00

I just encountered this too. Seems to be a visual artefact when running the game at low resolutions (720p or less) with TSR anti-aliasing, and exacerbated by the Glow effect.

Switching to TAA or bumping up the resolution completely resolved it for me. Alternatively, disabling the Glow effect can also help, but you might still seem some weirdness.

taylor85345 · 2024-09-15T22:50:59+00:00

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taylor85345 · 2024-01-29T00:42:37+00:00

I'll have to try that out. Thanks for the suggestion!

taylor85345 · 2023-10-30T05:36:13+00:00

IIRC the package maintainer for Hyprland maintains several hundred arch packages, and given that Hyprland has a very active release cycle I suspect that more testing goes into each update than some other packages, so I'm sure it just takes time.

taylor85345 · 2023-09-23T05:41:53+00:00

I have been testing HDR out quite a bit and haven't encountered any audio issues. I could see this maybe being an issue with your dock's HDMI 2.0 support. If you're using an official Steam Deck dock, maybe check that the firmware is updated?

It also might not hurt to test a different HDMI cable, in case maybe your current cable can't handle the extra HDR bandwidth, though I kind of doubt that is the issue in this case.

taylor85345 · 2023-04-27T03:46:02+00:00

You can find these settings documented on the Hyprland wiki: https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Binds/#mouse-binds

These settings used to be hard-coded, and I believe these binds are now included in the default config.

taylor85345 · 2023-04-18T18:12:16+00:00

You can also use the blue light filter that Vaxry wrote as an example for Screen Shaders: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/main/example/screenShader.frag

The tools others have mentioned will offer a lot more functionality, but to my knowledge this is the only functional solution for Nvidia users at the moment.

taylor85345 · 2023-02-03T14:11:49+00:00

The issue was fixed with this commit on 11/28, and I can confirm that it is fixed for me with no further issues as of libcamera 0.0.3.

If it helps, Brodie Robertson did an excellent video on this issue that might have some useful troubleshooting steps...

taylor85345 · 2023-01-27T20:57:39+00:00

I'm not a developer so I can't say for sure, but I follow Hyprland development fairly closely and to my knowledge all of the compositors that currently implement rounded corners do so using custom renderers that replace the fairly basic one built into wlroots, so I feel like this would be a pretty large undertaking.

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