wayland in rawhide

Vít Ondruch vondruch at redhat.com
Fri Nov 20 12:56:06 UTC 2015


Dne 20.11.2015 v 13:23 Thomas Gilliard napsal(a):
>
>
> 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

That is useful indeed. Thanks.

It should be linked from the change proposal page probably ...


Vít



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