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Elppans

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Registered: 2024-01-13

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Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

Hello, how are you?

Sorry for my English, I really tried to write correctly.

This week I was testing ArchLinux with **Gnome Shell + Wayland** and I noticed an annoying problem.

I noticed that the system is freezing when it is idle for a while.

I did several tests that didn't work, until I decided to test the system in an X11 session.

There was **no problem with Gnome Shell + X11**, so I switched back to the Wayland session for more tests.

I found that the following packages solve the problem:

xorg-xwayland xorg-xlsclients glfw-wayland

After installing these packages, there were no more freezes when idle. It worked as well as an X11 session.

The `libinput` and `wayland` packages were already installed.

Just to reinforce, I later installed the "`wayland-protocols`" package, but I don't know if this is really necessary, since the other 3 have already fixed the problem.

However, there is one more detail:

The system stopped crashing with these packages when it is left untouched for a while, but I noticed that when it goes into Standby (or tries to do so), the problem occurs.

If I set the variable "GDK_BACKEND=wayland", the system works normally, but it disables "copy-paste" between Host and VM.

If I set GDK_BACKEND=wayland,x11 or remove it, the problem occurs again.

How can I fix this problem?

Thank you very much in advance!

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Re: Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

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woodsb02

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Registered: 2013-06-03

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Re: Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

What version of GNOME are you running?

I am having the same issue now (gnome freezing every few minutes) - I am testing the new GNOME 48 from gnome-unstable and extra-testing. The kernel is still working, because music keeps playing, and I can ssh to the machine over the network.

Installing those 3 packages (xorg-xwayland xorg-xlsclients glfw-wayland) didn't fix it for me.

What does help unfreeze it, is opening my laptop lid - it immediately comes back to life, and then I can close it again.

Elppans

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Registered: 2024-01-13

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Re: Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

I'm using Gnome Shell version 47.

Try this variable, "GDK_BACKEND=wayland" in the /etc/environment file to see if it works for you.

It works for me, but the downside is that it disables copy-paste between Host and VM.

woodsb02

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Registered: 2013-06-03

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Re: Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

In my case, I think the problem is one of these issues:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3974
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3955

woodsb02

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Registered: 2013-06-03

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Re: Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

The recent update to mutter 48.0-3 fixed this issue for me.
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 8ad31996d8

Elppans

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Registered: 2024-01-13

Posts: 5

Re: Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

The recent update to mutter 48.0-3 fixed this issue for me.
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 8ad31996d8

I'm using the stable version, so I'll wait for version 48 to arrive to test it. From what I've seen, it won't take long, so I'll be patient.
When I test it, I'll come back with the results.

Elppans

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Registered: 2024-01-13

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Re: Gnome Shell + Wayland freezes

Finally, the packages have been updated to Stable.
I tested it in VM, QEMU/KVM with the QXL video model and Gnome froze.
So I configured the model to Virtio and surprisingly, it didn't freeze, it continued normally.
In short: Systems with Wayland in QEMU/KVM, test it using Virtio.
So this topic is resolved. Thank you very much for everything and see you next time.