NOTE OF CAUTION for Users of the Proprietary NVIDIA Driver on Wayland

[GaryScottMartin]

My research indicates that Boomaga relies on functionality that is fragile when using the proprietary NVIDIA driver on Wayland. A recent update to the NVIDIA driver apparently broke Boomaga for me. Not only would the GUI not start, but even after being started from the command line, printing to Boomaga failed. NVIDIA driver release 580.119.02-2 fixed part of the issue. I could print to Boomaga after starting the GUI from the command line, but the GUI still failed to start if it hasn't already been opened from my desktop session. (Printing from the command line with lpr avoided the GUI starting problem). Even after successful prints, I still got the error message:

[Boomaga GUI] WARNING: Can\'t read DBUS session direcory /var/spool/cups/tmp/.dbus/session-bus

in /var/log/cups/error_log

As far as I can determine, a robust solution to this issue would require overhauling Boomaga to make it fully compatible with Wayland. Since that seems very unlikely at this point, be aware that NVIDIA driver updates may at times break Boomaga.

• NVIDIA driver release 590.48.01-1 appears to have restored full functionality to boomaga. The boomaga GUI starts normally and no boomaga error messages are left in /var/log/cups/error_log.

[sokolgeo]

Here is what worked for me: #143