Am Mittwoch, den 25.09.2013, 09:08 -0700 schrieb kristof:
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?
Wayland is already enabled in the current GTK3 build¹ in [extra]. If the Gnome Shell can act as wayland compositor in Gnome 3.10 I think it can be run by exporting GDK_BACKEND=wayland and running gnome-shell directly—as it is done with weston (weston-launch). But I’m not shure if this functionality is avalable in Gnome 3.10 stable. ¹ https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=p...