wayland in rawhide

Vít Ondruch vondruch at redhat.com
Fri Nov 20 11:15:05 UTC 2015


Dne 10.11.2015 v 20:54 Ray Strode napsal(a):
> Hey guys,
>
> Today I built snapshots of gnome-session gdm gnome-shell and mutter
> that change how we do sessions at the login screen. We'll no longer
> have separate items for GNOME and GNOME on Wayland.  Instead they're
> now both consolidated under the GNOME item.  That item will use
> wayland if it can, but if it falls back (because of a failure or
> nvidia proprietary drivers, or the user explicitly disables wayland in
> /etc/gdm/custom.conf) then that GNOME item will use Xorg instead.
>
> I'm doing this for now in rawhide as preparation for this system-wide
> f24 change:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefault
>
> If things don't pan out for whatever reason, or the change gets
> otherwise rejected for f24, we'll split the items back out into two
> items.
>
> But it's good to get this in rawhide now, so we can get as much
> exposure as possible to potential wayland problems and get them fixed
> up before release.
>
> Just a heads up ! If you're a rawhide user please test!
>
> --Ray

So is there some tracker with all the issues? I observe various strange
behaviors, such as Empathy not opening Discussion dialog, tabs in FF
cannot be moved, various strange crashes after user log out, but no
response from stakeholders :/


Vít


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