Trying Wayland

[Jiri Eischmann]

Stephen Gallagher píše v Čt 27. 03. 2014 v 08:58 -0400:
> 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.

I also tried and failed with the F20 COPR a few days ago, also using an
Intel graphics card.

Jiri