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>>413531708
Gonna try with X now. 
Switched from X to wayland a few months ago due to some weird fullscreen issue with mpv. Stayed on wayland since then with no problems until VR. 
>>413535203
KDE plasma and a 6800. 
The problem is steamVR opens up like if direct mode wasn't enabled despite it being checked. The only thing I've found that works is just continuously hitting restart headset on the settings (basically closing and opening steamVR a couple of times)

Going to try X now so hopefully shit just works.