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W.F.Cody

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From: Ghent

Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 155

firefox only runs with prime-run [SOLVED]

Hi I have a very weird issue since a few days back.

Firefox refuses to start, but I realized that if I start it with prime-run it works.

First of all, my computer (Dell Precision 3560) is already very strange (Nvidia/Intel hybrid graphics) where I can start Wayland sessions but X11 sessions always fail (log says that X11 starts, but there is no output to display). Been following basically every guide I could find to make stuff work as they should, but don't bother anymore since I rarely need an X11 session anyway.

I use a sway/KDE hybrid environment with the following startup script:

#!/bin/sh
#KDE stuff
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl
export QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION=1
export KDEWM=/usr/bin/sway
#GTK stuff
export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
#Applications
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
export CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland
export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel'
#export JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true'
export JAVA_FONTS=/usr/share/fonts/noto
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3
#Sway stuff
#export WLR_RENDERER=vulkan
export WLR_DRM_NO_ATOMIC=1
export __GL_GSYNC_ALLOWED=0
export __GL_VRR_ALLOWED=0
export WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1
#Nvidia stuff
export GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm
export GBM_BACKENDS_PATH=/usr/lib/gbm
export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
exec sway --unsupported-gpu

Last edited by W.F.Cody (2023-01-11 14:28:18)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,296

Re: firefox only runs with prime-run [SOLVED]

Do not export these last 3 (not sure about the first 2 pretty sure about the last one) variables globally they will lead to a GL program being implicitly forced to look for the nvidia GPU.

W.F.Cody

Member

From: Ghent

Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 155

Re: firefox only runs with prime-run [SOLVED]

Do not export these last 3 (not sure about the first 2 pretty sure about the last one) variables globally they will lead to a GL program being implicitly forced to look for the nvidia GPU.

Ah indeed that solved it

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