KDE Wayland freezing while wlx-overlay-s is running

[valkayrie]

having issues with all my desktop windows freezing up while my overlay is running. mouse cursor is unaffected. repeatable on the latest github actions appimage as well as release v0.6. I have no clue where to start tracking this down. kde x11 is not affected. gpu stock and oc both affected.

[galister]

check dmesg for any gpu driver events. if you're on AMD, there's a linux-firmware version that will crash your GPU driver if you try to encode while you're trying to do graphics load. this can be fixed by downgrading the linux-firmware package. last one i know works for sure is linux-firmware-20241110.

could also try to force cpu capture. if you're on nvidia or dual-gpu then this will likely fix your issue.

echo 'capture_method: pw_fallback' > ~/.config/wlxoverlay/conf.d/pw_fallback.yaml

[valkayrie]

here's my specs, I'll give software capture a try for tonight. is there a way to keep hardware capture on an nvidia gpu?

Operating System: Nobara Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.4-200.nobara.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7B79
System Version: 2.0

[valkayrie]

had a weird software interaction last night. with cpu capture, at some point all programs besides my discord stopped responding to mouse input in my overlay window including my application bar. I had to use my hardware mouse to close discord from my system tray and everything started to work again