# Salome-Meca not running under Wayland and Nvidia GPU

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**Category:** Salome-Meca installation\
**Created:** [November 3, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://code-aster.org/forum/t/salome-meca-not-running-under-wayland-and-nvidia-gpu/12321 "2026-11-03T17:16:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://code-aster.org/forum/t/salome-meca-not-running-under-wayland-and-nvidia-gpu/12321/1 "2026-11-03T17:16:22Z")

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I am using Arch Linux and KDE as my desktop. KDE just dropped X11 in favor of the more modern Wayland this is a trend that many linux distros are adopting.

The sif container expects X11 and will crash if using Wayland and Nvidia GPU.

I am pretty sure this is a common issue for other users. Has anyone found a workaround? I really need to run it in GPU mode. --soft is not good enough for me.

Thanks in advance.