wayland in rawhide

Thomas Gilliard satellitgo at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 12:23:07 UTC 2015



On 11/20/2015 03:15 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> 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
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Wayland_problems

has a list  "Known issues, frequent complaints, fundamental changes"
satellit


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