[Design-team] Re: Blender Wayland available on COPR
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:05:51 +0100
Onyeibo Oku <onyeibo(a)schemefusion.com> wrote:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:05:00 -0800
Luya Tshimbalanga <luya(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Thanks to the work of one of Blender contributors [1], Blender runs
> on Wayland with upstream patches yet to land mainline [2]. The
> method was enabling "*WITH_GHOST_WAYLAND"*parameter along the patch
> setting "BLENDER_WAYLAND" environment when running a Wayland
> session.
>
> To see if the installed Blender[3], available on the COPR
> repository, runs directly on Wayland, from the terminal, simply
> type "WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 blender".
>
> The side effect resolves an issue related to rendering with Open
> Shading Language. The long term goal is to make Blender with Wayland
> support available on the main repository starting from Rawhide and
> possibly the current release i.e., Fedora 35.
>
> Blender Wayland is available for both Rawhide, Fedora 35 and Fedora
> 34 for testing.[3]
>
> References
> ---------------
>
> [1] https://developer.blender.org/T90676
> [2] https://developer.blender.org/D11489
> [3]
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/luya/blender-egl/build/3032066/
>
Thank you Luya. This is amazing news!
Off to test.
Tested OKAY!
Thank you Luya
Regards
Onyeibo