Trying Wayland

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 03/27/2014 08:35 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 08:13 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> On 03/27/2014 08:08 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> With GNOME 3.12 in rawhide today (or in the F20 copr), it is
>>> for the first time really easy to try GNOME with Wayland. You
>>> can just select 'GNOME on Wayland' from the session chooser on
>>> the login screen.
>>> 
>>> If you do so, you'll get a desktop that looks just like
>>> regular GNOME, and a great many things work just fine. Just be
>>> aware of the few things that don't work yet:
>>> 
>>> - Drag-and-drop doesn't work - No touch support - some popups
>>> (eg entry completion) do not appear
>>> 
>>> Most seriously, right clicks and double-clicks on applications
>>> that are running under xwayland have the tendency to bring down
>>> the session.
>>> 
>>> Of course, we are working on all of these issues. Any help is 
>>> welcome!
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> I tried this yesterday (via the F20 COPR) and unfortunately it
>> didn't work. After entering my credentials in GDM, the screen
>> changed to one with a graphical session and a mouse, but never
>> loaded the reset of the GNOME session. I haven't had a chance to
>> investigate it further yet, unfortunately.
> 
> I've successfully tried it with rawhide. On intel hw, that is. I
> forgot to mention that it is probably limited to systems using
> intel graphics, currently.
> 

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

I'll try to dig into it some more later today.
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