Public bug reported:
Installing proprietary Nvidia or ATI drivers will cause sway to exit
with a warning, requiring additional command-line arguments in order
to operate correctly. The presence of the driver is all that is
required to trigger this behavior. There is no test to check if sway
is actually configured to use the GPU.
The sway development team will not support any configuration involving
proprietary drivers, but I do not believe this is a good reason to
intentionally break people's systems.
This behavior is user-hostile and can cause confusion with users that
have headless GPUs for compute purposes.
The sway development team refuses to discuss this or accept patches,
so I am attempting to work with ubuntu/debian to rectify this issue on
the distribution level.
Patch attached.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: sway 1.2-1 [modified: usr/bin/sway
usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-lowlatency 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 28 22:10:28 2019
SourcePackage: sway
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: sway (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal wayland-session
** Patch added:
"0001-Do-not-intentionally-break-when-proprietary-drivers-.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1857791/+attachment/5316193/+files/0001-Do-not-intentionally-break-when-proprietary-drivers-.patch
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Intentionally exits when propritary GPU drivers are present on system
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