From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rutger Helling Subject: Re: GNOME on Wayland current status Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:47:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20180102134758.703830e5@mykolab.com> References: <7dbd6d56e6335050bedb1ca55c9a4828@mykolab.com> <87k1x11pxh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/2b+S6..yzcaEGfrpSvG.k6P"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWLzL-0007mD-Tf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 07:48:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWLzJ-0006av-Ac for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 07:48:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87k1x11pxh.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?B?Q291cnTDqHM=?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --Sig_/2b+S6..yzcaEGfrpSvG.k6P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Ludo, I've sent in a patch (#29943) that adds a small paragraph to the documentation about the current situation. I believe there was a plan to replace SLiM with GDM for the default login manager. Getting GDM to work properly should probably be the first step since it has great Wayland support. From what I know GDM can default to Wayland and falls back automatically to X11 if for some reason Wayland doesn't work. Alternatively we could switch to SDDM as the default for now, until GDM is ready. That way people are at least able to start a GNOME Wayland session easily (I don't think this is possible with SLiM). I don't know how controversial of a change that would be. Note also that unlike GDM, the SDDM greeter itself still runs on X11 for the time being. Ideally we want the greeter to run on Wayland too, that way you can avoid starting a Xorg server running as root. On Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:53:14 +0100 ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote: > Hello! >=20 > Rutger Helling skribis: >=20 > > As discussed in patch #29758 I've tried GNOME on Wayland on the > > different display managers. > > > > SDDM: Should work, just pick the "GNOME (on Wayland)" session. > > SLiM: Doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if SLiM has support for > > Wayland sessions at all. > > I couldn't get GDM to start, so I don't know if that works or not. > > > > Note that you can use the following command to manually start GNOME > > on Wayland: > > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=3Dwayland dbus-run-session gnome-session > > > > This seems to require that you've started GNOME via a display > > manager first though. =20 >=20 > Thanks for the update! >=20 > Any idea what could be done in terms of documentation or code > (services?) for people who=E2=80=99d like to try out GNOME on Wayland? >=20 > Thanks, > Ludo=E2=80=99. --Sig_/2b+S6..yzcaEGfrpSvG.k6P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEAVThuRzJ2e93ZI3n86cn20T8yjYFAlpLf34ACgkQ86cn20T8 yjYJAQf/QfKXKYs3Fmjj/kW8pV6Y8r6w5uWtGuzztJI9d2+FuFVkcaJig3AsPsGw Bi7iaCIsFGQtbzGy/VZnhpJv4Hz0xxLDzaCxqLPag35DWa73Tp52rhmfvbu/0vh8 nSt8ucPh+mEPxOKfsKTN6KQLJx9RDyEYhO4UJk8G7NB70qQEJ2oFhcLzT2NrzhZ1 8zP5ExmunwsVgFn9KenK60g0U6JfDvqG+l/y4bn4gnH5tGZrA3sWfjs/oG2HNBg0 Mgdk9l3IfNaVmgjqYVE6NKSe5bJGKskuXgTcdiCqEc9UuXAdzfM8nHhl/H/+FcxP AOAamy6oRBb0NGAOiHxe36hdDjHrPw== =JMfN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2b+S6..yzcaEGfrpSvG.k6P--