Desktop editors poor performance Wayland Ubuntu 24.04

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After the update (v.9.0.3 flatpack and deb), I confirm that the issue persists.

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Thank you, we are checking the situation.

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Hello @Mkt987
We’ve found a bug in the described scenario. thank you for the valuable data! We will update this thread once the fix is released.

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@Alexandre
There has not been any update to this “issue” in 9 months since you indicated a possible cause had been identified?

I am still seeing this crazy screen activity using Onlyofficeeditors under Wayland.

My system:

6.8.0-117-generic #117-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue May 5 19:26:24 UTC 2026 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble

At login, if I select X11 instead of Wayland OnlyOffice works great.

With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released now, the version of Gnome used, no longer supports X11,
only Wayland so it will be critical to make sure this problem is eliminated.

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@bmullan I had this problem under earlier versions of Ubuntu / Wayland with NVIDIA but it went away in 25.10 and is still gone away in 26.04.

I hope this is of some use to you.

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Its my understanding that after an Ubuntu LTS is released Canonical does not add any new features just bug fixes to the LTS.

If this is a bug with OnlyOffice under Wayland in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, but its fixed in 25.10, shouldn’t that fix be back-ported to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to fix the bug there ?

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@bmullan I had a few minutes today to review the whole thread and I offer you my observations as a user of OnlyOffice and Ubuntu (not someone who speaks with any authority for either)

  1. There are two problems raised in this thread - the one I raised originally which is weird artefacts (unwanted transparencies) and very slow rendering of typed material; the other which is problems with fractional scaling. You don’t state which problem you’re experiencing, but I assume it’s the same issue I had since you are still using Ubuntu 24.04. If you read back through this thread you will also see that there were problems with Chrome running in 24.04 and using then-current NVidia drivers.
  2. My problem solved itself when I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.10 which brought along nvidia-driver-560-open, which you can see if you read back through this thread. I suggest you take a look at your NVidia driver situation in 24.04 to see if you can load something at least as new as 560 (my 26.04 installation is using 595). You may find that such an update will fix your problem in 24.04.
  3. You mention that you are concerned about continuing to suffer this problem when you move to 26.04. My experience, with 24.10, 25.04, 25.10 and now 26.04 is that those releases all work fine with OnlyOffice on Wayland with my NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3060 running version 560 or newer driver versions. Of course that’s no guarantee that you will have the same positive experience, but it does offer some hope for success.
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Thanks for the comments.
Over the weekend I install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release on a spare ssd and checked it and the problem does seem to have been fixed.
I won’t be upgrading my daily driver machines to 26.04 LTS until the 1st Point release in Aug/Sept.
Since Ubuntu 24.04 still lets me pick X11 or Wayland at login…. I can just use X11 until I upgrade.

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Thank you @Bonzini for keeping a close eye on the whole thread.
@bmullan please feel free to contact us if you face any issues.

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@Alexandre you are most welcome.

In case it’s of use to anyone, I notice in Ubuntu 26.04 that the application “Software & Upgrades” has disappeared. This is the application that, among other things, allows selection of drivers for NVidia graphics cards. More information on this is available here:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/why-we-re-saying-goodbye-to-software-updates/76783

which appears to be authoritative. The basic TL;DR is:

  • selection of drivers will move to App Centre;
  • there is much more focus on installing the “best” driver for a given NVidia card.

Somewhere else, I found a conversation which I summarize as “great, put the driver stuff in App Centre but until it’s there, what do we do?”, which led me to the command ubuntu-drivers. For example, on my AMD Ryzen 7 with NVidia 3060:

$ sudo ubuntu-drivers

=== Welcome to ubuntu-drivers ===
This tool helps you install and manage hardware drivers for your Ubuntu system.

— Installed OEM / NVIDIA Drivers —
NVIDIA Drivers:
• nvidia-driver-595-open

For more information, use ‘ubuntu-drivers --help’ or ‘ubuntu-drivers list’
To install drivers, use ‘sudo ubuntu-drivers install’

— NVIDIA Module Status —
✓ NVIDIA module is currently loaded
Module path for current kernel: /lib/modules/7.0.0-15-generic/kernel/nvidia-595-open/nvidia.ko
✓ Next boot module path: /lib/modules/7.0.0-15-generic/kernel/nvidia-595-open/nvidia.ko
✓ Current and next boot kernel versions match
$

So, for those of you moving to Ubuntu 26.04 and concerned about the interaction of your NVidia drivers with Wayland (since now only X in Wayland is available), this may be useful going forward.

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Hello, @Bonzini
Thank you for sharing this information.

Yes, according to Ubuntu’s official discussion, the “Software & Updates” utility is no longer included by default in Ubuntu 26.04, and driver management is being moved to other system tools.

This may be helpful for other users investigating Wayland/XWayland behavior on newer Ubuntu versions.

Thank you for posting your findings.