Oliver Banasiak

tommygdawg
Can confirm this is still a friggin' issue and it's very frustrating. I have multiple Linux bugs that make the whole Houdini situation the one snag in my Linux life (I've been in the process of switching the past month).

Currently running an Arch distro called CachyOS using KDE Plasma 6.6. I love it. Plasma is great. Cachy is great. Nuke works flawlessly. Games work flawlessly.

Houdini...it's the little things. The damn middle mouse button. Installing the QT5 version DOES fix it, however, V-Ray doesn't work in the QT5 version!

Furthermore, I have to downgrade to the 580 Nvidia drivers otherwise Houdini will randomly freeze up every few seconds to every few minutes. This isn't the end of the world, but I do experience some minor crashing in games I don't otherwise have.

Hell, I even got Anyware client working with Distrobox for the day job at the studio. It's literally these couple of small issues that can be quite a headache that are keeping me from completely formatting my Windows drive.

Anyone else have these issues or any workarounds?


Oh and by the way, I have tried myriad other distros and DE's at this point. The only DE I've found that doesn't seem to be problematic is Cinnamon. But also...gross.

Yes, just circling back to this, I was also on the quest to try and find a solution for ANY of these, but alas, same issues you and others report are still there and to me, unless I am blind, I can't see anything on any roadmap or anything like that, that would indicate a fix is coming in the near future. We just need to wait for VFX houses to update from their ancient versions to get SideFXs attention on the matter. Since X11 just recently was shafted, it'll probably be a year or so before we see any real movement with Wayland and SideFX. Sucks absolute balls, but what can we do?

Also, Cinnamon works flawlessly? I might add it even as, you point out, gross!

Damn, I just started researching this and found this thread. Everyone is moving to Wayland so this seems like a strange oversight/bug! We need that support if we can get it.

Yes, this would be amazing! I know this thread is old but Q3 is selling like hot cakes and I'd love to use it with Houdini for sculpt/modelling or just walking around the viewport placing stuff in Stage!