With the release of the NVIDIA 560.x drivers, with all the fixes in it for Wayland display server, I was excited to give it a try.   Firstly, when it works, it is amazing, everything looks so sharp/crisp and no screen tearing at all.  But I have 1 issue, and I have not found a problem.  I noticed this issue in 555.x drivers.   I get whole screen flicker, on both displays. 

This is my current screen layout, which works really well for my workflow.  I keep the left screen static, and the middle screen is where my virtual desktops live.  That way, as I move across the virtual desktops, my right screen never changes. I put things here that I want to always be able to see.   Also by the way, this is why I like gnome, and the only reason I like gnome.   KDE does not seem to do this, at least not without installing a bunch of weird plugins and such.

Anyway, back to the point of this blog.  What I am seeing when I switch to Wayland is the entire desktop flickers, even when I am just idle and on both displays.   I have no idea what is causing this, and I do not see this issue on my laptop, which is running Wayland.   I don't know if this is a dual screen issue, a high refresh issue (165hz) or if I have some odd background process running that is causing this. 

No matter what though, I won't be switching to Wayland until this issue is resolved, either by my sleuthing out the issue and fixing it my self (I will blog about it here when I do.) or a driver/Wayland update fixes it.

Oh Wayland, someday we will be friends.. Someday...

-Fratm