electron: [Bug]: Zero GPU Acceleration on Wayland
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Electron Version
22.0.0
What operating system are you using?
Other Linux
Operating System Version
Linux apg 6.0.11-arch1-g14-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:24:00 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
What arch are you using?
x64
Last Known Working Electron version
No response
Expected Behavior
I expect content rendered in Electron to use the GPU to display graphics, and accelerate video.
Actual Behavior
No content inside of Electron seems to be accelerated through the GPU.
Testcase Gist URL
No response
Additional Information
This only occurs when running Electron using the Wayland backend. When running under XWayland, acceleration appears to be functional. I am passing the following flags to Electron:
--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-gpu
--enable-unsafe-webgpu
--enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer,Vulkan,UseSkiaRenderer,VaapiVideoDecoder,CanvasOopRasterization,VaapiVideoEncoder,RawDraw
--disable-features=UseSkiaRenderer,UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder
--enable-zero-copy
--enable-oop-rasterization
--enable-raw-draw
--enable-accelerated-mjpeg-decode
--enable-accelerated-video
--enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers
--use-vulkan
--use-gl=egl
--ozone-platform-hint=auto
These flags allow Chromium to accelerate:
This issue affects Electron 20, 21, and 22 in my testing. I am applying these flags to Electron through adding them here and launching WebCord (a Discord client) with Electron 22, then fullscreening a video. I see a CPU core immediately go to 100% usage, and the video playback is laggy and drops frames.
My system is Arch Linux with a Ryzen 9 6900HS and RX 6800M GPU under the open source AMD drivers.
I have attached logs for both Electron 20 and Electron 22: logs22.txt logs20.txt
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: open
- Created 2 years ago
- Reactions: 15
- Comments: 17 (2 by maintainers)
If I had any knowledge of how to contribute to Electron, I’d make this my top priority issue to fix, given that Wayland should already be the default experience for Linux users on certain distros, and adoption will only increase. A wide class of applications perform badly due to lack of GPU acceleration on Wayland, and as a result of this bug I have personally committed to not developing applications with Electron for Dense Analysis for the moment to avoid the bug.
still an issue on the latest electron release. Approaching the 1 year mark now.
Do we have any idea on a timeline for when that would be?
Bump
On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 04:50 electron-issue-triage[bot] < @.***> wrote:
This is probably going to be improved once Electron pulls in a Chromium revision with the recent libva-drm changes.
Ref: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Wayland-VA-API
Also happening for me on wayland via kwin
Nvidia 3060, 545.23.06 driver. Still an issue ;_;