GNOME Mutter 3.29.1 Now Works With Elogind, Allows For Wayland On Non-Systemd Distros

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Mutter 3.29.1 Now Works With Elogind, Allows For Wayland On Non-Systemd Distros

GNOME Mutter 3.29.1 has been released as the first development snapshot of this window manager / compositor in the trek towards GNOME 3.30...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Mutter-3.29.1

[Awesomeness]

GNOME Mutter 3.29.1 Now Works With Elogind, Allows For Wayland On Non-Systemd Distros

So good news for the intersection of people who use VoidLinux or Devuan and want to run Gnome 3.

[cybertraveler]

So good news for the intersection of people who use VoidLinux or Devuan and want to run Gnome 3.

and Gentoo

and Slackware

and Knoppix

[darkbasic]

Will Plasma do the same? AFAIK systemd is needed on Wayland.

[cybertraveler]

AFAIK systemd is needed on Wayland.

Wayland is a display server protocol. It's not software. The Wayland protocol does not require systemd. It's possible that some Wayland compositors (aka Wayland display servers) that implement the Wayland protocol, depend on systemd being present.

[Azrael5]

Will it be on the upcoming linux operating systems?

[kaprikawn]

Mutter can now be built with elogind. That is the systemd-logind as its own standalone package. This in turn allows using Mutter with its native Wayland back-end on Linux distributions using init systems besides systemd

Lies! Everyone knows Red Hat is forcing everyone to adopt systemd by making everything depend on it

[curfew]

Wayland is a display server protocol. It's not software. The Wayland protocol does not require systemd. It's possible that some Wayland compositors (aka Wayland display servers) that implement the Wayland protocol, depend on systemd being present.

He was talking about the state of Plasma (KDE desktop) and not Wayland. Read the whole message and do not delete context from your quotes, then it's easier to understand.

[nanonyme]

and Gentoo

and Slackware

and Knoppix

Probably also makes BSD interop significantly simpler

[starshipeleven]

and Gentoo

and Slackware

and Knoppix

and FreeBSD