Linux: use WebKit's shared-memory transport for the NVIDIA DMABUF renderer

The Device tab web view is slow on NVIDIA proprietary drivers even with
accelerated compositing left on: since the DMABUF renderer became the
default in WebKitGTK 2.42, the driver cannot back it, and web views fall
back to a slow path. Gating the old WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE
fallback on WebKit < 2.42 is the wrong axis, because the failure is
version-independent from 2.42 on.

Force the shared-memory transport with WEBKIT_DMABUF_RENDERER_FORCE_SHM=1.
That keeps compositing and threaded scrolling and skips only the hardware
path. Also set WEBKIT_FORCE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1, which clears the isNVIDIA()
early return that Debian/Ubuntu/openSUSE patch into
rendererBufferTransportMode() and which otherwise returns before the
FORCE_SHM check is reached.

Both are set before the X11-vs-Wayland split so the workaround also covers
XWayland, and only when WebKitGTK is new enough to honour FORCE_SHM
(>= 2.44, WebView::SupportsForceSharedMemory()).

The AppImage launcher exported the superseded
WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1, which is read first, leaves the transport
set empty and so disables compositing outright; replace it with the same
pair. The wxWidgets skill reference is updated to match.
This commit is contained in:
Lam Wei Lun
2026-10-12 13:02:10 +08:00
parent 00bccf9b2d
commit 9c164ca597
6 changed files with 65 additions and 13 deletions
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@@ -417,6 +417,17 @@ bool WebView::NeedsCompositingWorkaround()
#endif
}
bool WebView::SupportsForceSharedMemory()
{
#ifdef __linux__
const guint major = webkit_get_major_version();
const guint minor = webkit_get_minor_version();
return major > 2 || (major == 2 && minor >= 44);
#else
return false;
#endif
}
#if wxUSE_WEBVIEW_EDGE
bool WebView::CheckWebViewRuntime()
{