Wayland Continues Advancing On Features, But XWayland Could Use Some Help

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland Continues Advancing On Features, But XWayland Could Use Some Help

Taking some time away from preparing the upcoming Wayland/Weston 1.9 release, Bryce Harrington at Samsung's Open-Source Group has written a blog post about the state of Wayland features and other ongoing work...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-1.9-Progress-Features

[Krysto]

When can we finally see Wayland/Mir by default in a distro? 1 year? 2? 5?

[Pecisk]

When can we finally see Wayland/Mir by default in a distro? 1 year? 2? 5?

Fedora 24 aims to be Wayland by default.

[justmy2cents]

Fedora 24 aims to be Wayland by default.

even in 23 support is damn good. if you're not bound to those few show stopper bugs that prevented this to happen in 23

[Ericg]

even in 23 support is damn good. if you're not bound to those few show stopper bugs that prevented this to happen in 23

I'm using Wayland right now on Fedora 22 and it's pretty damn good lol. I haven't gone out of my way to stress test it, just using firefox and virt-manager, but so far no problems.

[RahulSundaram]

I'm using Wayland right now on Fedora 22 and it's pretty damn good lol. I haven't gone out of my way to stress test it, just using firefox and virt-manager, but so far no problems.

There are a bunch of important fixes in Fedora 23 branch including copy/paste, drop/drag between X11 and Wayland as well as a few minor but nagging problems.

[jaxxed]

I was using gnome-wayland as a daily driver until yesterday, when it stopped working for me. I'm on arch, and using mesa-git, and linux-mainline, so I just assumed it was a temporary issue. or a configuration incompatibility.

[Nobu]

Gnome-wayland working fine for me, though I haven't updated in a couple days.

One issue I noticed is if I open a new window in Firefox with ctrl+n, then try to focus the search bar with ctrl+k (without ever releasing ctrl), it'll just type the k in the search box on the page (I have duckduckgo as my homepage). Has anyone else experienced this, is it a known bug? Seems like maybe an xwayland/libinput bug, as I don't remember ever experiencing this in KDE.

[helland]

I was using gnome-wayland as a daily driver until yesterday, when it stopped working for me. I'm on arch, and using mesa-git, and linux-mainline, so I just assumed it was a temporary issue. or a configuration incompatibility.

I think it should just be a matter of updating mesa-git again. There was a patch that disabled an openGL extension that wayland relies on. A patch landed yesterday that reverts this, back to the old behaviour. If this is what caused you problems then it should be fixed in mesa-master

[89c51]

Do you people use FF through Xwayland or the patched version released by a Red Hat guy?