SAMSON on Wayland

Richard

Hi,

I have previously been able to run SAMSON with no real issues on Manjaro Linux, however, Manjaro has switched to Wayland as its default display server. Now, whilst the program starts, the 3D viewport is black and I cannot interact with it. Clicking on the viewport or attempting to load a fragment into the current scene causes the program to crash in varying ways, either by the window simply closing or by a crash dialog box being raised, followed by the program closing.

Setting the QT_QPA_PLATFORM environment variable to wayland, wayland-egl, or xcb does not fix the issue. I see a few QOpenGLWidget: Failed to make context current in the console, which looks related.
The program runs acceptably under X11, but would require me to switch display servers for a single program.
Running Wayland on Manjaro with NVIDIA drivers.

Is there some secret environment configuration to get the program running on Wayland? Thanks in advance.

DmitriyMarin

Hi @Richard ,

Sorry about the issue. Which version of Manjaro Linux and NVIDIA drivers do you have? We will install it to see what the origin of the issue might be and how to fix it.

Richard

@DmitriyMarin

Hi,

Manjaro is a rolling release so it doesn't really have a concrete version number, however:

❯ uname -a
Linux system 6.17.1-0-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:57:35 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
❯ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID="ManjaroLinux"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="25.0.10"
DISTRIB_CODENAME="Zetar"
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

Whilst my NVIDIA drivers are:
Version: 580.82.09
NVML Version: 13.580.82.09

Running on an RTX 3060. Hope this is useful, can provide further info on request. Thanks for your help.

Jocelyn

Thanks! Could you please let us know which desktop environment you’re using?
You can check it by running:

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

or

echo $DESKTOP_SESSION

GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, etc ?

With this info, I will be able to setup the same system as yours.

Richard

@Jocelyn

Hi,

It's GNOME Shell 48.5

Thanks.