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musbur

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Registered: 2022-01-14

Posts: 69

[SOLVED] How is Hyprland supposed to work?

I wanted to give Wayland a spin, so I logged into a tty and did this:

$ sudo pacman -S hyprland
$ Hyprland

I got a bunch of text output and then -- nothing. Only after I switched to another virtual console and back did I get a black screen with a mouse cursor that wouldn't move.

Coming from Xorg + dwm + dmenu + xbindkeys as my normal work environment I didn't expect hyprland to "do" anything out of the box, but at least switching to graphics mode and a working pointer would have been nice.

Here's an ungodly amount of logs from that session:

https://0x0.st/8sRm.log

Thanks for any hints!

Last edited by musbur (2024-12-31 16:06:21)

ayylmaonade

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2023-01-25

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] How is Hyprland supposed to work?

Pretty simple fix here - the recent version of Mesa (24.3.x) has broken Wayland compositors if you're using an Intel iGPU or dGPU. The way to fix this is to downgrade Mesa to a working 24.2.x release. I would presume the last 24.2 version would work, but as I'm on an AMD GPU I can't test this unfortunately.

More info here - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/12195

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musbur

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Registered: 2022-01-14

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] How is Hyprland supposed to work?

Funny enough, what you say doesn't seem correct but got me in the right direction: I hadnt installed mesa but mesa-amber, which is version 23.x. I removed that and installed mesa, which is at 24.3.2 -- and it works! Thanks!