Just wondering if the editor fully supports Wayland at this point since Ubuntu does plan on dropping X11 for their next LTS afaik.
Primarily wondering because I’m facing two issues in Fedora KDE (I know it’s not officially supported) that I’ve also noticed on other other distros and have come to the conclusion that the issue seems to be Wayland specific since it’s not happening on unsupported distros running X11 (Fedora has already dropped X11 for their GNOME workstation and KDE Desktop editions)
The first is that the icon that I get when performing a legal drag and drop action makes it look like the action is not allowed. In the picture I took here, I’m trying to drag a material onto a cube which is a legal action but the drag and drop icon does not update to reflect that (on Mint for example you get a green plus when you drag the material over the cube), it still shows an icon indicating that it’s not allowed. It’s a small nitpick but can lead to some confusion when doing an action you’re actually not sure is legal or not
Another issue with drag and drop I’ve noticed is that after performing the drag and drop action, you will see a black streak from the cursor leading back to the Asset’s location in the project tab basically it looks like its animating the asset traveling back to the project tab but it doesn’t render properly and just looks like a black streak. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture of it.
Here are my specs at the time of writing this;
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.8-300.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT 16-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (Driver Version: 580.105.08 CUDA Version: 13.0)
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B550I AORUS PRO AX
Other than that though Unity seems to work just fine. It’s nice to see the program work on pretty much all distros even if there are some hiccups I don’t think they’ve ever been blocking issues and when they are they seem to be addressed fairly quickly
I’m right now on debian 13 with gnome, and ubuntu 24.04.3 dual boot, and actually the issues you mention look more like KDE thing (that’s probably why they are not present on mints x11 cynamon), as those problems are absent on gnome.
I have been keeping unity running under wayland most of the time, mostly because the lack of fractional scaling on X11 makes using unity a pain to use without a magnifying glass.
One unfortunate thing is that gnome 46 on supported ubuntu does not deal too well with fractional scaling. The text just looks blurry. It’s much better on debian and gnome 48. From what I understand, both KDE and Gnome have their own way of dealing with wayland implementation, so some quirks can happen.
The requirements page specifically mentions Wayland as requirement.
But keep in mind: it’s only Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 that are officially supported. No Mint or any other Ubuntu version. While it’s likely that other distros work fine you do not get any support when it does not, and you cannot send valid bug reports from non-supported Linuses (they get closed as invalid or something).
Actually, Wayland is supported on Ubuntu 22.04 only on AMD cards, and 24.04 supports Wayland on nvidia 550 drivers and up. So I wouldn’t call it a “requirement”, as the docs specifically say: “Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 or Wayland windowing system”.
I actually thought that wayland on unity is supported through Xwayland layer, but I’m not sure to be honest.
hm interesting you point that out. Originally I did think it was just a KDE thing but I actually tried Fedora Workstation as well which uses GNOME and had a similar issue. The black streak I’m talking about was still there though not as streaky.
The drag and drop cursor icon was still showing as invalid as well.
When I was testing mint I also tried installing KDE on it which worked fine but it was KDE 5 and not 6 so definitely big changes. Mint’s Wayland session also worked just fine but I took that with a grain of salt since it’s still experimental.
Fedora Cinnamon worked as well as Cinnamon on Mint did. At this point this was actually what got me thinking that maybe it’s a Wayland thing since all distros that have worked so far have been under an X11 session. Some Wayland sessions worked (Like Mint) but not all
Ideally I’d like to just stick to Ubuntu and call it a day but unfortunately GNOME just isn’t for me. I needed quite a few extensions to get the system to something that works for me and I was experiencing bugs here and there.
Tried Kubuntu as well just to at least remain in the Ubuntu family but I could not get it installed and working properly. Overally not the end of the world though and I bounce between Windwos and Linux since I need both so realisitically I can keep using Unity mostly on Windows
In that case it might be a more complicated issue, where certain distro, desktop environment and unity are not playing to well together.
On my end, I’m not getting those glitches. Debian 13+gnome 48+wayland produces expected icon with a plus sign and no black smearing, although that black streak you are refering to might be nvidia related. I’m running radeon card.
From what I noticed nvidia is getting there when it comes to wayland support, but on my other pc with and nvidia(albeit pretty old) and driver 580, I’m getting some artifacts on wayland.
So, my guess after what you wrote is that the icon gets messed up on fedora for whatever reason, and streaks are nvidia driver issue.
I’m in the same boat. Realistically I can just run windows as well, but considering where win11 is going, I have removed it from my main pc entirely as my entire toolchain works under linux. And Unity Editor works pretty well for me, apart from an issue I’ve outlined in another post.
With Steam Machines and SteamOS on the horizon,there is hope for linux taking more of the pie, which hopefully translate to a more involved support on all fronts.
agreed definitely does feel like an nvidia issue. There was also an issue not so long ago where the text in the tool tip boxes would appear all garbled up and it was only happening on Wayland.
I might give Debian another try I did like it when I used it but since I have an nvidia GPU it’s not as easy to backport the drivers as it is with mesa. I might end up going with either one of the Ubuntu flavors (maybe give Kubuntu one last chance haha idk why it just never works properly for me lol) or Mint.
I like Fedora KDE but doesn’t make much sense to continue using it when I know there are distros that work dam near flawlessly for what I wanna do
I have Debian 13 on the older nvidia machine, and yeah, It’s problematic. The current nvidia stable official is old 550, which doesn’t even default to wayland session. In fact running it even prevents manual switch to wayland and there are some steps to actually enable it. And there are still no newer nvidia drivers in backports for 13, so to install newer driver you need to use Debian 12 backports. From what I’ve read people were reporting it works fine.
I’ve tried it and had it working fine with drivers 580. Still I’ve reverted to the official 550 on that other machine, as it’s not critical and it can run x11 till they add official nvidia backports. Also, depending if you have secure boot on, things get even trickier.
One thing that Ubuntu does really well is painless nvidia experiance, and I really understand Unity choice for using it as a base for support. When Unity versions start supporting 26.04 I will most likely switch, because there will be no more ugly scaling issue present as in gnome 46. And yeah, gnome kinda grew on me, but I still find it crazy you have to install tweaks and extensions to be able to do basic customisation.
I can add my experience. I am running Pop 24.04 under Cosmic (w/ Wayland). Almost everything works for me just fine. The only issue (which I’ve entered a bug for) is that the only way I can get the inspector panel to update when switching focus between game objects is to toggle the lock icon on the inspector panel. It doesn’t matter if I am toggling from locked to unlocked, or unlocked to locked. At that moment the inspector will change to the currently selected game object.
There is an exception though. If I have the game actually running, the inspector updates as expected. It’s only in edit mode that I have the issue above.
They haven’t said that they won’t fix the bug, but they’d much rather I didn’t have the bug. I no longer have permission to look at my own issue. Thanks Jira! It’s IN-121338.
(Unity is using xwayland, dev system is a laptop with built-in Radeon 780M graphics).
