[arch-general] Wayland Support in Gnome 3.10

[Armin K.]

On 09/25/2013 09:13 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:08 PM, kristof <saposcat at 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.
> 

You can use "mutter-launch -- gnome-shell-wayland --wayland" from a VT.
The clutter error seems to be there because cogl wasn't built with x11
egl platform, but you shouldn't be getting that anyways. It's a bit ugly
when starting it this way (ie, nearly impossible to shut it down -
keybindings don't work, no vt switch), but it seems to start.

Also, xwayland is required for gnome-shell-wayland to fire up.