Trying Wayland

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 15:42:52 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:53 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I forgot to mention that it is probably limited to systems using intel
>> >> graphics,
>> >> currently.
>> >
>> >
>> > I thought wayland was meant to work with any driver that has kernel
>> > modesetting (be it Intel, Nouveau or radeon)
>>
>> Its xwayland that's causing problems there is a generic ddx and
>> upstream xwayland will not require any but we are not there yet.
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>
> I think I misunderstood then, I was under the impression most basic stuff
> (ie. the shell itself, being able to start the session) don't relay on
> xwayland and thus should work on non-Intel platforms too (I couldn't start a
> wayland session on my radeon machine)

That's how it should be but currently the shell is an xwayland client
and dies when xwayland dies.


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