cannot start wayland with nvidia

[ExpandingMan]

Issue description

Start qtile with wayland from lightdm, black screen.

I've tried this with multiple machines all on Manjaro linux 6.7.7 with nvidia drivers 550.54.14.

This issue seems to indicate that others have at least gotten something to display.

Version

0.24.0

Backend

Wayland (experimental)

Config

Full config here: https://gitlab.com/ExpandingMan/qtileconfig

(don't think any of it is relevant to this but who knows)

Logs

2024-03-06 10:06:23,784 ERROR wlroots log.py:log_func_callback():L15 [EGL] command: eglQueryDeviceStringEXT, error: EGL_BAD_PARAMETER (0x300c), message: "eglQueryDeviceStringEXT"
2024-03-06 10:06:23,784 ERROR wlroots log.py:log_func_callback():L15 [EGL] command: eglQueryDeviceStringEXT, error: EGL_BAD_PARAMETER (0x300c), message: "eglQueryDeviceStringEXT"
2024-03-06 10:06:23,952 ERROR wlroots log.py:log_func_callback():L15 [render/egl.c:312] Software rendering detected, please use the WLR_RENDERER_ALLOW_SOFTWARE environment variable to proceed
2024-03-06 10:06:23,955 ERROR wlroots log.py:log_func_callback():L15 [render/egl.c:554] Failed to initialize EGL context
2024-03-06 10:06:23,955 ERROR wlroots log.py:log_func_callback():L15 [render/gles2/renderer.c:679] Could not initialize EGL
2024-03-06 10:06:23,955 ERROR wlroots log.py:log_func_callback():L15 [backend/drm/backend.c:266] Failed to query renderer texture formats
2024-03-06 10:06:23,956 ERROR wlroots log.py:log_func_callback():L15 [backend/backend.c:228] Failed to create DRM backend

Required

• I have searched past issues to see if this bug has already been reported, and it hasn't been.
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[NabilSadik2003]

Wayland is a completely new window system. Unfortunately most of graphics card drivers work well for X11 only. Wayland support is still yet to come. So, better use X11 until the Wayland support is available

[Crystal4276]

Posted this issue quite long time ago on lightdm git: canonical/lightdm#268
Try to switch to sddm instead (works for me).

[ExpandingMan]

I have since discovered that indeed the display manager does a lot more to initialize wayland than the WM. It seems like every other update wayland is working or not working with nvidia, it's very annoying (but probably has nothing to do with qtile).

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