Everything has been working fine since I upgraded to fedora 40 with the nvidia drivers and x11 from rpmfusion. The other day, there were a bunch of updates that I couldn’t install because they apparently weren’t compatible with plasma-workspace-x11, so I uninstalled it and thought I would re-install after the updates. But it says it will downgrade 211 packages if I install it? What the heck??? I thought there might have been a change that made it incompatible as mentioned in a bunch of web posts but a friend running fedora 40 with the same graphics card checked and he’s still running x11 with the latest fedora updates! I have confirmed that I am, indeed, running wayland currently.
I have continued working on this. By uninstalling some packages, I was able to get the driver installed:
956 sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*
957 sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
960 sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
But after rebooting, there is still no choice between x11 and wayland on the login screen and it is definitely using wayland as evidenced by: ps ax | grep -i wayland
I also installed kwin after I noticed it was missing and rebooted. Still no joy.
There was a dependency issue. The fix is being tested. FEDORA-2024-3712cffb02 — bugfix update for plasma-workspace-x11 — Fedora Updates System
Thank you for letting me know! I don’t know why my friend hasn’t seen it yet since he’s running the same fedora and nvidia card. I will track the fix.