[Feature requrest] nvidia offloading doesn't work on Wayland

[jeremyszu]

Based on nvidia README, it supports X server only.
https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/510.54/README/primerenderoffload.html

It's a wishlist level for nvidia graphic.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Islam (islam)]

This is a very important issue because there are some GLX apps doesn't work with PRIME offload so they need Nvidia to be the default.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Last I checked, this did work already. You should get a menu option like 'Launch using Discrete Graphics Card' when you right click on an app icon.

Please check if this works for you.

[Islam (islam)]

How would you use 'Launch using Discrete Graphics Card' if you are trying to run an app from nautilus? it doesn't show that option.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That would be a feature request for nautilus.

More generally I think whatever launches it just needs to set environment:

  __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1

[jeremyszu (os369510)]

okay, I can confirmed it works with latest packages from Jammy.

In both 'Launch using Discrete Graphics Card' and '__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia' cases.

But it doesn't work for firefox (mine is a snap version) so I think we are good to close this or switch to affect firefox.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The feature not working for snaps is unsurprising but also an important one for us to track.

Please either create a new bug for that or reopen and reword this bug to be about snapped apps only.