GNOME/GTK Application tooltips are stretched/distorted

[Tekstryder]

@Tekstryder

If an nVidia mod/dev would be so kind to supply the internal bug tracking number

Per a parallel KDE thread…

Tooltip distortion on KDE Plasma

Hi - I see that there has been some conversation here already about tooltip distortion on GNOME/GTK applications, and that it seems that interest in pursuing a fix may have been muted because GTK has changed to Vulkan by default, which makes the issue moot? However, on the latest 565 driver, I (and at least a few others) are still seeing the effects of this on KDE Plasma - 495073 – Tooltip rendering issues when rapidly switching between panel icons - is this an issue that will still be pursue…

@aritger

I’ve filed NVIDIA internal bug 5382305 for this.

Now tracking as:

• nVidia internal tracking Bug #5382305

@Tekstryder

I’ve recently switched from Gnome (mutter) to Sway (wlroots ) and this same issue is present with both display servers / compositors.

• kernel 6.15.6
• wlroots 0.19 (-D xwayland=disabled) (Vulkan Backend)
• sway 1.11 (Native Wayland)
• gtk4 4.18.6 (-Dx11-backend=false)
• nVidia 575.64.03
• egl-wayland2 1.00

EDIT:

Per the KDE-related thread, I’m now testing the egl-wayland2 library.

• GitHub - NVIDIA/egl-wayland2: Dma-buf-based Wayland external platform library

COMMAND    PID       USER  FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF    NODE NAME
sway       852 tekstryder mem    REG  259,2    84512 1870808 /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.0
kgx       1014 tekstryder mem    REG  259,2    84512 1870808 /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.0
gnome-tex 1339 tekstryder mem    REG  259,2    84512 1870808 /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.0
nautilus  1447 tekstryder mem    REG  259,2    84512 1870808 /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.0
evolution 1679 tekstryder mem    REG  259,2    84512 1870808 /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.0
WebKitWeb 1758 tekstryder mem    REG  259,2    84512 1870808 /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.0
brave     1930 tekstryder mem    REG  259,2    84512 1870808 /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.0

Thanks @kbrenneman for pointing this new lib out!