In reply to @charles:computer.surgery
unfortunately i have an nvidia gpu so i'm not allowed to run wayland and thus i won't be of much help there

00:00:00.003 [sway/main.c:65] Proprietary Nvidia drivers are NOT supported. Use Nouveau. To launch sway anyway, launch with --unsupported-gpu and DO NOT report issues.

trying again with the suggested argument says

00:00:00.003 [sway/main.c:62] !!! Proprietary Nvidia drivers are in use !!!
00:00:00.009 [wlr] [backend/backend.c:217] Found 0 GPUs, cannot create backend
00:00:00.009 [wlr] [backend/backend.c:386] Failed to open any DRM device
00:00:00.010 [sway/server.c:56] Unable to create backend

Date: 2022-10-19 PDT
[12:12:41.093] weston 10.0.0
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               Bug reports to: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/issues/
               Build: 10.0.0
[12:12:41.094] Command line: /nix/store/6l920wjzw38gvb2vcp1y2ajhhpfw3fn1-weston-10.0.0/bin/weston
[12:12:41.094] OS: Linux, 5.19.14, #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Oct 5 08:40:55 UTC 2022, x86_64
[12:12:41.094] Flight recorder: enabled
[12:12:41.094] Starting with no config file.
[12:12:41.094] Output repaint window is 7 ms maximum.
[12:12:41.094] Loading module '/nix/store/6l920wjzw38gvb2vcp1y2ajhhpfw3fn1-weston-10.0.0/lib/libweston-10/drm-backend.so'
[12:12:41.096] initializing drm backend
[12:12:41.096] Trying logind launcher...
[12:12:41.098] logind: session control granted
[12:12:41.098] no drm device found
[12:12:41.098] fatal: failed to create compositor backend
Internal warning: debug scope 'drm-backend' has not been destroyed.