Using Wayland with the Nouveau driver

[oldgeek]

Irritated by the inability of my GE730 graphics to run Wayland using the Nvidia 470 driver (jerky movements, impossible to control the cursor) I switched to Nouveau driver, and lo and behold it seems to be working. Which seems odd to me, since it's an X Org compatible driver. So my question is, am I really using Wayland? The info center says I am. But I'm just curious why it seems to work now but didn't before. It does not work on my two Steam Games (Universe Sandbox, Space Engine) but I can just go back to the 470 driver for those. Does anyone else have any experience using Wayland with Nouveau? My OS is Mantic Minotaur, by the way.

[Schwarzer Kater]

[…] So my question is, am I really using Wayland? […]

echo $WAYLAND_DISPLAY ;
echo $DISPLAY ;
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
and you know.

[oldgeek]

My screen froze before I had a chance to try your suggestions, so I guess it doesn't work very well, despite a promising beginning. It's another case of hardware working fine, but it's fast becoming obsolete. I still use a Lenova netbook from time to time (32-bit) and it still works fine, too (except for the battery, which is moribund), but it's over 12 years old and too slow.

[Schwarzer Kater]

My screen froze before I had a chance to try your suggestions, so I guess it doesn't work very well, […]

The official statement about Wayland in the release notes for Kubuntu 23.10 is:

A Plasma Wayland session is available for testing, but is not supported. […]

apt info kwin-wayland says:

[…]
This package provides the wayland version, which is still a work in progress
project, and is available as a PREVIEW release. Don't expect the same
stability as with the x11 version.

Personally I will probably wait until Kubuntu 26.04…

[oldgeek]

Thanks. I think I will wait as long as I can as well, since the present setup is working well.