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by amoss 488 days ago
Wayland has been "nearly ready" for so long that it is easy to miss progress. I installed an arch desktop three months ago and setup kde with wayland, expecting that I would revert to xorg when something broke.

So far everything seems to work - although the machine has a strange glitch. Processes randomly die, but only if they have a render surface. Typically it happens to factorio or to the steam ui component, which are both incredibly stable.

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I play Factorio quite a bit on Wayland and have never had a crash. I rarely use Steam but have a vague recollection of the overlay giving me a bad time. Might be something to try disabling if you haven't already.
thanks, i'll try that Nd see if it helps.
> Processes randomly die

Does the kernel log not show anything? Or maybe the steam log?

I am sure that somewhere there's a hint of what's going on.

Nothing in the kernel log and the steam log shows a trace, but no debug symbols, only raw addresses.