You Can Now Run GNOME Shell Wayland On Fedora 20

[ChrisXY]

              wow
                     gnome
                                   wow
       such alignment
                     ready for production
              such obscure issue
                                   nobody will ever see
              wow

I shouldn't stay up so late.

tl; dr:
You can have X running while trying it on a tty with "gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland". tty switching doesn't work, but you can "pkill gnome-session" and it'll drop you back to the tty. But when doing that it also killed pulseaudio and kded4 in X was a bit broken and hotkeys still don't work even after starting kdeinit4 again.

[jukkan]

This is a big milestone as I understand. I'm extremely pleased with the pace of development of Wayland & GNOME this year.

[MartinN]

that is just mutter-wayland.. I think you want:

pretty! thanks for posting!

[Akka]

Canonical wants to run entire desktops under XMir. This is turning out to be more complicated that anticipated. For XWayland, it will just run applications that don't run under Wayland. This should be much simpler and as Wayland has a lot of X developers, I'm guessing their assessment is right.

As the XWayland behavior is the same as xorg in macosx and windows I suppose the behavior already is supported by xorg and has been optimized in many years?

[Skrapion]

it puts tears in my eye's

No no no, there's no tearing in Wayland. Every frame is perfect

[LinuxGamer]

that is just mutter-wayland.. I think you want:

it puts tears in my eye's

[bkor]

So..anyone know what's holding XWayland back? Or is it just a case of them trying to get the actual thing ready and thus just not working much on it?

Canonical wants to run entire desktops under XMir. This is turning out to be more complicated that anticipated. For XWayland, it will just run applications that don't run under Wayland. This should be much simpler and as Wayland has a lot of X developers, I'm guessing their assessment is right.

[robclark]

the beauty that is wayland:

that is just mutter-wayland.. I think you want:

[xeekei]

I'm excited for this. I'm an Xfce user, but they are not jumping to Wayland anytime soon. I'll probably move to GNOME, but I'm not a big fan of it. I hope I can run Classic.

[Hamish Wilson]

Keep in mind that we still need egl drivers that include the wayland specific extension (forget what it's called).

The free in-kernel drivers have worked with Wayland for years, and they are more than suitable for most people. People who need the few remaining strengths of the blob drivers will still have to wait a little while longer of course.