Now that I know that the Nvidia problem is due to Nvidia choosing to build their driver in a way that doesn't allow shared memory...
"While not a big deal on machines with 2+GB ram on older machines with 1 GB it does represent a bit of an issue." - Bug #725434 It's seeming more reasonable to go ahead and enable cairo-gl and just recommend that people use Nouveau instead of the proprietary drivers on machines with less than 2gb ram. (I say this as I've been using Nouveau on a machine with 8gb ram.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954352 Title: Enable wayland backend To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/954352/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs