I have 3 displays, all of them 2560*1440
My working setup on ubuntu was to run games inside gamescope with this arguments :

gamescope -b --xwayland-count 1 -w 7680 -h 1440 -- mangohud %command%

Gamescope would run as an X11 application, allowing me to then run :

wmctrl -e 0,0,0,7680,1440 -i -r <WIN> ou WIN is the gamescope x11 id I got from wmctrl in the first place

That way, the game thinks it runs on a very wide display since it cannot see the underlying setup. And wmctrl would place the gamescope window on the rightmost display, but with a width of 3 times 2560, it would cover all my screen space

Basically, the eyefinity concept but for linux, allowing for a nice immersion. Worked nicely in Cyberpunk 2077 or Horizon Zero Dawn

Since I had paid leave days to take and nowhere to go, I've decided to migrate to Arch Linux and do some tinkering.

I have a working system with plasma 6, which was my first objective

The issue is that gamescope now starts as a native wayland window instead of a Xwayland one, meaning my trick with wmctrl is dead in the water. And the -b seems to be broken since I have kde decorations on the window

I have then 2 questions

1) is there a way to force gamescope to run in x11 mode (ie over XWayland) ?

2) is there a way to have the same approach in a wayland only setup ? wmctrl has no equivalent, and the whole wayland philosophy seems to be against manipulating windows positions and size anyway. I'm open to change compositor if necessary

I continue tinkering, if I found something, I will post an update if it can help someone

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I've done this many times (installed steam on a fresh system) and it worked as expected every time. Expect for today.

Output of steam:

bin_steam.sh[6466]: Setting up Steam content in /home/adam/.local/share/Steam gio: Setting attribute metadata::trusted not supported steam.sh[6466]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit steam.sh[6466]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[6550]: Updating Steam runtime environment... /home/adam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: line 85: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: command not found run.sh[11213]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig steam.sh[6466]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway tid(11244) burning pthread_key_t == 0 so we never use it [2024-05-02 22:27:49] Startup - updater built Jan 13 2024 00:51:43 [2024-05-02 22:27:49] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/adam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt". 05/02 22:27:49 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(11244) crash_20240502222749_2.dmp[11247]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/crash_20240502222749_2.dmp /home/adam/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 798: 11244 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

I reinstalled my whole system today. It didn't work on the previous install too (worked yesterday...)

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I installed fedora 40 a few days ago and havet had many issues, but one annoying one i have is that when i switch direction while scrolling in some instances the first "click" is ignored. The places i have noticed this is the gnome workspace switcher, hotbar in Minecraft, wepon switching in Cyberpunk, most likely other games too. This is most annoying in Minecraft as i use the scroll wheel all the time. I am using xorg atm and the workspace switcher works as expected, so i understand it might be an issue of "deal with it til explicit sync is out" but if anyone know how to fix it, some help would be appreciated. If it helps im also using a Logitech g903.

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Resurrected my girlfriends old lenovo laptop and want to use it for normal everyday and some gaming (mostly emulation and older games on Steam).

I was debaiting between Manjaro or Mint but don't know which to go with or if there's a better option. Any suggestions or tips to get the best out of it?

P.S. It needs to be something I can dual boot because I also want to use it as a Kali machine to learn pentesting.

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I recently switched to Ubuntu after hearing it could give me better performance. Have tried games that have run very smoothly on windows, yet they lag A LOT (could run TF2 on highest graphics settings with 60+ fps, but even with the lowest graphics settings I am struggling to get near anything remotely smooth framerates).

It seems that it is something that is possible to fix, my machine is running on 8gb ram (IK that isn't a lot, but it was enough back on windows...).

I am just left wondering what to do to inprove my performance as it wasn't an issue back on windows. Should I switch to a more gaming focused distro than Ubuntu or are there any settings that can help me get better performance, * it seems as if proton is causing lag, as other applications (non-games) run pretty fine.

Specs:

Hardware model: Lenovo Idea centre G5 14IMB05

Memory: (ram) 8.0 GiB

Processor: Intel®Core™i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz × 12

Graphics: NV168

Disk capacity: 752.2 GB

OS Name: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

OS Type: 64-bit

GNOME Version: 42.9

Windowing system: Wayland

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I was attempting to run apex legends on Linux and it takes an abhorrently long time to process vulkan shaders. Took approximately an hour to reach 63% and got even slower beyond that. My build is quite good, with an i3-13600kf and an nvidia 3060. I'm almost certain this should not be the case. Any help is appreciated.

Current steps taken to fix: Proton experimental instead of default (I assume hotfix) Enabling background shader compiling

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Trying to mod Persona 3 Reload again after not playing for some time. Was able to launch it fine earlier but now I’m having some issues after trying to launch Reloaded II where the shortcut to launch the game modded doesn’t work anymore.

I am not a smart person, I just like silly video games. Could someone offer a solution..?

Protontricks was closed due to the following error: Proton installation could not be found! Please include this entire error message when making a bug report. Log messages: Found Steam directory at /home/deck/.local/share/Steam Found 1 Steam library folders Currently logged-in Steam user: (my steam username! Shortcut Launch P3R using Reloaded * (3915616154) does not have a prefix. It's either not a Proton app or it hasn't been launched yet. Found © Steam shortcuts running using Steam compatibility tools Using 'yad' as GUI provider Calling protontricks with the command: [° --no-background-wineserver'. '-no-term', '-c', 'wine /home/deck/PersonaModding/Reloaded-II/Release/Reloaded II. exe', '632360'] Running inside Flatpak sandbox, version 1.14.4. Using default Steam Runtime at /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12 32/steam- runtime WINETRICKS environment variable is not available. Searching from $PATH. Found 1 Steam library folders Currently logged-in Steam user: iamthebestcorky Shortcut Launch P3R using Reloaded * (3915616154) does not have a prefix. It's either not a Proton app or it hasn't been launched yet. Found 0 Steam shortcuts running using Steam compatibility tools The current device is a Steam Deck We're on a Steam Deck, checking if compatibility profile is available for the app App has Steam Deck compatibility profile with Proton version: proton-stable User has configured default Proton version (CompatToolMapping) : proton 9 Could not find configured Proton installation! Active Proton installation could not be found automatically.

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Arch Linux, Nvidia, Pipewire.

As the title says, I'm getting some kind of intermittent distortion only when using HDMI audio. It's not the crackling issue that people often have. It almost sounds like it could be interference, but I can't imagine where it would be coming from. I'm not exactly in a densely populated area. it's sort of a buzz/drone sound that's across most of the frequency spectrum but primarily the mids, and it kind of moves/evolves when it happens for a few seconds continuously.

I've tried some basic things like manually setting bitrate and buffer sizes, but it hasn't made a difference.

Just wondering if anyone else has run into this issue, and might know of a fix? It's incredibly annoying.

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Simple thread;
Why has steam decided that it doesn't want to start now?
Arch user btw.

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as I'm playing Helldivers 2 I noticed that there is no GPU in the mangohud. I'm using rtx 3050 laptop GPU, and I'm using manjaro KDE.

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https://looking-glass.io/docs/B7-rc1-21-ecd3692e/requirements/#connected-display

I've been looking into looking glass and I have a question whether my laptop which has an integrated AMD gpu and a dedicated Nvidia gpu where the latter routes it's output to the former instead of being connected to a display.

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Hey, I'm not really happy to have Vanguard running 24/7 somewhere in depths of system kernel - especially that nobody is 100% sure what it really can do behind the scenes - we can only hope it detects cheats and nothing else. So I was wondering - if I purchase second NVme disk and install there windows 11 just for games - would that keep my primary disk with linux safe?

For clarity - On my main disk with linux - I do use secureboot + whole disk is encrypted using default debian crypt params. For second disk with windows - I would only run there those 2 games, no login to web browser, no work, no sending personal files there.

Also, prove me if I'm wrong but as these are 2 separate disks, I don't need to create some custom grub entries, right? I can just enter boot menu manually from keyboard every time I want to boot to my second drive.

Asking all of this cuz truth be told I miss League after all and I can pickup such disk for maybe $15.

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Hello ladies and Gentlemen. I am making the switch from Windows and attempting to get my laptop up and running with Pop Os because of the ease of having nvidia drivers per-installed. So far everything has been functioning great accept getting dlss and frame generation to function. I have an ASUS Invictus with both integrated graphics and an RTX 4050.

I'm using the hybrid graphics mode and things are working accept in Starfield (the only game ive tested) I don't have access to DLSS and Frame Generation. I can select FSR and a few other options, no dlss. Looking for help here. Thanks in advance.

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I have an ultrawide screen which is broken and the right 5 cm can't be used. Under Windows I set it from 3440x1440 to 2560x1440 but that also removes the left side. As I am not aware in Windows of a solution that gives me the left part back.

Is there a solution in Linux where I can just say don't use the right 5cm of the monitor

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