White screen after upgrading Manjaro Wayland

[yumpo]

Hello, I know there are a couple topics out there with the White Screen problem, but not much mention about Wayland. Manjaro just completely abandoned KDE X11 after the new update and moved on to KDE Wayland, and I’m having a similar White Screen problem after the update, and then crashes.

Any solutions?

NoMachine version: 9.3.7
Manjaro version: 26.0.1
KDE Plasmashell version: 6.5.4
Kernel Version: 6.18.4-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700G

Have done restarts and all.

Had tried setting eglcapture to no and no avail still. I also changed /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg WaylandMode to drm, and nothing.

I can send my logs using nxserver –debug. Timestamp should be at 01/22/2026, 09:20 to 09:21

Let me know what email to send it to.

[Britgirl]

Hi,
send the logs to forum[at]nomachine[dot]com. Use the title of your topic as the subject of your email. Thanks 🙂

[yumpo]

Logs sent. Let me know how it’s turning out whether there’s a solution for it, or if I have to wait for the next update.

[yumpo]

Ok, I was able to do a temporary fix. So Manjaro has removed X11 after their latest update, but they still keep the option open to go back to X11 by installing through their package manager plasma-X11-session.

Installing that, logging out and selecting the X11 session in the SDDM, makes NoMachine work again.

Of course, I’m not sure how long they’ll take to phase this out, but as a temporary fix, Manjaro does give the option to get X11 again for now.

[fra81]

Hi @yumpo,

could you follow the steps below, if you are available?

1. Show us the output of the sudo getcap /usr/bin/kwin_wayland command
2. Show us the content of the /etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env/nx-sourceenv.sh file, if existing
3. Run sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --eglcapture yes and comment out the WaylandModes key (to restore its default value)
4. Show us the output of the sudo getcap /usr/bin/kwin_wayland command again
5. Logout and login again to the Wayland desktop, and let us know if it still doesn’t work

[yumpo]

Here’s the output:

 /*sudo getcap /usr/bin/kwin_wayland*/
/usr/bin/kwin_wayland cap_sys_nice=ep 

 /*cat /etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env/nx-sourceenv.sh*/
---No file in directory 

—–
Ran the command: sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver –eglcapture yes
—–

 /*sudo getcap /usr/bin/kwin_wayland (for the second time)*/
blank 

 /*cat /etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env/nx-sourceenv.sh (for the second time after logging out and logging in)*/
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/NX/lib/libnxegl.so 

After logging out and logging in, it worked, but only for a couple of times, then it goes back to having that White Screen. Especially when I’m on Android, e.g. when suspending NoMachine to go to another app, then going back to NoMachine app, it disconnects from the server, and when the NoMachine app tries to reconnect, it does the white screen again.

Checking it on my laptop, the same white screen happens when the white screen happens to the Android app as well.

It’s not much of a problem with the laptop since it doesn’t disconnect when I go to another app.

Restarting the NoMachine server helps though, but I kinda don’t want to continue restarting it.

[fra81]

That’s strange. There might be a different problem now. Just to be sure, would you please check the getcap command and the nx-sourceenv.sh script again after you experience one of these white screens? Also a new set of logs from the server – gathered while you are experiencing the white screen – could be useful, given that this could be a different issue. Thanks for your patience!

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