On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:08 PM, kristof <saposcat@myopera.com> wrote:
I'm not entirely savvy with all the details but from my understanding, GNOME 3.10 will be featuring a Wayland tech preview, meaning that it can (optionally?) use the wayland protocol to manage graphics and windows and all that fun stuff.
Are we going to compile this support by default? Does anyone know how and if we'll be able to switch back and forth between Xorg and Wayland?
It's all just ad-hoc in 3.10. For example, GDM has no support for Wayland. What you're supposed to do is log in on a VT (in text mode) and then run "gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland" to start the GNOME Shell. Alternatively, run "gnome-shell --wayland" from X to get a nested shell. However, at least for me it doesn't work at the moment: The shell launched from text mode just aborts with a trap, and the nested shell errors with: (gnome-shell-wayland:12690): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Failed to connected to any renderer due to constraints I'm a bit puzzled about how to fix this. I have Intel Sandy Bridge graphics, and the needed features of cogl and clutter are enabled. Insight welcome. I've already tried adding XWayland (xorg-server from xwayland branch with --enable-wayland, as well as xf86-video-wayland), but that didn't change anything. It's likely XWayland is needed anyway, but it seems my current problem is another one.