minimal config for hyprland with nvidia on manjaro

[ExpandingMan]

Wayland now "just works" with all my nvidia cards on qtile, so I thought it was about time to see if I could get this running since my transition to wayland seems finally (finally) in sight. I use Manjaro on pretty much everything, so my goal here is not just to get hyprland working but also to figure out the bare minimal shenanigans required to do that.

As such, the first thing I tried was to just run it out of the box (amazingly, this works for qtile now). That doesn't work. No surprise here as the docs tell me this is going to happen.

Next, I add these lines from the docs to the hyprland config.

env = LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME,nvidia
env = XDG_SESSION_TYPE,wayland
env = GBM_BACKEND,nvidia-drm
env = __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME,nvidia
env = WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS,1

Still doesn't work, logs are telling me m_sWLRBackend was NULL! which seems to be the critical error at which it gives up (this is the same thing that happened before putting in these config entries btw).

Next thing I try is to create /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf and write options nvidia-drm modeset=1 (again, the reason I didn't do this in the first place is because I'm trying to figure out the minimal config). This seems to break lightdm. Ignoring that, when I run Hyprland, the m_sWLRBackend error now disappears, but I get Could not connect to socket /run/seatd.sock: No such file or directory. The reference to "seat" makes me suspect this is because I broke lightdm, but the messages don't make this seem like a critical error. Below it says Successfully loaded libseat session and Found 2 GPUs, but after that nothing happens.

Now I have reached a point where I am slightly less comfortable taking the suggested steps (because I don't understand very well how grub and mkinitcpio work. The next thing I would try would be to edit /etc/default/grub, and generate the new grub config. The docs suggest I also modify /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and generate it. Not knowing how either of these work I don't know if it makes sense to attempt changing one at a time.

Before I do this, is there any advice about what's going on at this point? Is what I reported above consistent with expectations? Does anyone else have experience doing a minimal setup on Manjaro for nvidia? Again, at this phase I'm at least as worried about trying to sort out a standard way of doing this where I can have confidence everything makes sense as I am about actually getting it working (i.e. if I get it working but did too many shenanigans and am not confident I can reproduce them, I'll never use it).

Thanks!

[Aqa-Ib]

You might try with the Nouveau driver. For me (i dont game), it is the best. Everything just works out of the box, without tweaking anything at all.