Trying Wayland

[Stephen Gallagher]

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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.

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