Universal Blue•2w ago

On Bazzite 42 Gnome the VRR experimental feature is disabled by default

After updating from Bazzite 41 to the new 42 version (main, not testing), I noticed my display does not have VRR anymore, not even the option to enable it. Following that, I rebooted into the previous image, which is Bazzite 41, and the VRR is available and activated for my display as expected. On Archwiki I read about the experimental setting, so I suspected the experimental feature to be turned off in the new 42 update. After running the following command, and re-login to activate it, VRR was present again as an option. More so, it was automatically enabled again for my display as it was on Bazzite 41. gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate']"

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Erick•2w ago

Same problem, but the command didn't help

NivveOP•2w ago

Did you logout and login? Otherwise it indeed will not yet change anything.

Erick•2w ago

logout and later restart the pc, reapplied the command with sudo, looked for other commands. For now just gave up make it work

NivveOP•2w ago

Just making sure, but indeed you have covered that and more. Hope it can be fixed for you in some way or another.

Nobody64•2w ago

Are you on a handheld or a pc?

termdisc•2w ago

I ran

$ gsettings get org.gnome.mutter experimental-features
['scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']
$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate', 'scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']"

$ gsettings get org.gnome.mutter experimental-features
['scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']
$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate', 'scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']"

then rebooted

termdisc•2w ago

termdisc•2w ago

running testing-42.20250414.5

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On Bazzite 42 Gnome the VRR experimental feature is disabled by default

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