I was recently experimenting with using Gamescope to check whether HDR works on Plasma.
The games run perfectly if I set the compositor resolution (via -W and -H arguments) to a lower value like 1920x1080 (I have a 1440p monitor). But if I were to maximize the compositor window or make it fullscreen (via the Super + F shortcut), the window becomes invisible and I see my desktop. In case of maximizing, the title bar is visible but nothing else.
I have not set --expose-wayland since games don’t even start when I set that. When running gamescope with Steam integration (via the -e argument), steam starts and I am also able to make it fullscreen without any issues, but when I launch a game, I only see the Steam window.
During this time, I can hear the audio from the game, implying that the game is running in the background.
Has anyone else faced this issue and what could be done about this?
FWIW, I am on EndeavourOS with the git version of Gamescope installed from the AUR, though the non-git version does not fare any better. GPU is AMD Radeon with Mesa.
Looking at the Nix package, it seems like it just enables the Meson flag “enable_gamescope_wsi_layer” and adds the package “vulkan-headers” to the build inputs. Looking at the AUR package it uses vulkan-headers but idk what meson flags it uses.