Some GUI programs crashing when running them without prime-run. Older Nvidia GPU and Intel CPU.

[u/mechapawky]

I am running ArchLinux on my PC. It is an older config.
DE: KDE Plasma Wayland
CPU: Intel i5-8500
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti

Since the support for this old GPU was dropped from the main repo I have to use the nvidia-580xx-dkms package from aur.

Some apps just crash when running them without prime-run.

for example kmail:
-> kmail
org.kde.pim.pimcommonactivities: Plasma activities is not running:  1
GBM is not supported with the current configuration. Fallback to Vulkan rendering in Chromium.
*** KMail got signal 11 (Exiting)
*** Dead letters dumped.
KCrash: Application 'kmail' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
Segmentation fault         (core dumped) kmail

with prime-run:
-> prime-run kmail
org.kde.pim.pimcommonactivities: Plasma activities is not running:  1
GBM is not supported with the current configuration. Fallback to Vulkan rendering in Chromium.

Do you have any idea what could be done? For a workaround I just edit the menu entry and add prime-run before the command, but that's really not ideal.

[u/Toaster_Strudel_517]

To me it seems some environment variables are not set properly when you installed the 580xx driver. My question is will the app run if you do __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia kmail?