Xwayland was borked. Reinstalled all graphics drivers and mesa, Xwayland has fixed the issue, now all CEF windows render normally.

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a few applications that use CEF to render applications have serious artifacting (main install of arch with sway), i dont believe this is a gpu issue as i installed arch with sway minimal config and the issue was resolved.

anyway i am hoping someone smarter than me could direct me on where to start with debugging this issue :)

system:

OS: Arch Linux

KERNEL: 6.7.3-arch1-2

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (radeonsi, navi21, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.57, 6.7.3-arch1-2)

GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 24.0.0-devel (git-95ad0c750c)

RAM: 32GB

  • @BuffaloxEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    Unless someone has a better suggestion, I’d try to boot a live image of another distro that has Steam on the Live image.
    If that doesn’t work either, it’s probably your GPU, if it works, it’s something with your Arch installation.
    I don’t personally use Wayland, so I’m not sure if that may cause problems.

    • @squid_slimeOPEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      i did make a separate install of arch and sway, installed steam and the issue did not persist so i believe the issue to be with my main install. ive seen people with nvidia cards have had similar issues with wayland + electron/CEF but my amd card has been fine till last week.