Trying Wayland

[alex diavatis]

>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.

Isn't working with NVidia Nouveua as well?


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> 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.
>
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