I have a 3D printing software that does not display well on Wayland. Instead of relogging to start a x11 session is there a way to force that one software to display in x11 instead of Wayland?

Edit

AddingQT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to the enviroment variables was the solution for me.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

  • KaRunChiy@kbin.run
    14·
    4 months ago

    if its a qt application then run in a console “QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb program_name”, if it’s a gtk application i think it’s “GDK_BACKEND=x11” though I’m not entirely sure.

    I have to do this with LMMS as on sway click and drag doesn’t work for some odd reason

    • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Additionally once you figure out the environment variable you can add in to the .desktop file so it will launch from a launcher in that way, though updates will reset that.

      On arch wiki is a page on wayland which includes info on toolkits, though you may need to figure out the x11 option it will include the variable/option needed. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland#GUI_libraries