Wayland in rawhide should work again

Kalev Lember kalevlember at gmail.com
Wed May 7 20:39:18 UTC 2014


Hi,

Just a quick heads up that GNOME Shell's Wayland compositor should be
back in a working condition in rawhide. A few things had gotten broken
during the 3.13.1 update: mutter-launch had lost it's setuid bit and
mutter itself was crashing at startup under Wayland. There was also
nothing that would pull in required xorg-x11-server-Xwayland.

These should all be fixed, thanks to elad661's testing and drago01's
expert know-how and my monkey building of fixes they found.

If you want to test, wait for tomorrow's rawhide compose and install
gnome-session-wayland-session.

-- 
Kalev


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