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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:58:21
Message-Id: 1499972290.3784.5.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try? by Mick
1 Ühel kenal päeval, K, 12.07.2017 kell 09:33, kirjutas Mick:
2 > On Tuesday 11 Jul 2017 23:14:16 Mick wrote:
3 > > On Wednesday 12 Jul 2017 01:10:00 Mart Raudsepp wrote:
4 > > > > I copied /usr/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop to
5 > > > > /usr/share/wayland-
6 > > > > sessions/ and tried to select it in LightDM.  Unfortunately
7 > > > > LightDM
8 > > > > returns me
9 > > > > back to the login page.  I don't know if this is a result of
10 > > > > LightDM
11 > > > > not being
12 > > > > compatible with Wayland and friends, or if I need to install
13 > > > > some
14 > > > > other
15 > > > > package in addition to what has been emerged already.
16 > > >
17 > > > The desktop manager needs to be using wayland to be able to
18 > > > launch
19 > > > wayland desktop sessions. LightDM is not such a desktop manager
20 > > > to my
21 > > > knowledge and you won't be able to launch any wayland sessions
22 > > > with it.
23 > > >
24 > > > Mart
25 > >
26 > > Thanks Mart, what other DM or means do I have to launch
27 > > enlightenment with
28 > > wayland?  I'm guessing the time honoured startx from a console
29 > > won't cut it.
30 >
31 > Oh dear!  I noticed this:
32 >
33 > https://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git/tree/README.wayl
34 > and
35 >
36 > which states that efl *must* be built with --enable-systemd
37 > option.  I am 
38 > running openrc ... so I don't know if the above just requires this as
39 > a build 
40 > time dependency, or is needs systemd to be running.  Anyway, from
41 > that write 
42 > up and the Known Issues at the bottom it seems Wayland is not ready
43 > for prime 
44 > time yet.
45
46 That README.wayland looks rather outdated. There are issues mentioned
47 in the end that have been fixed since mid-2016 with xorg-server
48 releases out since then with the fixes (Xwayland comes from xorg-
49 server[wayland]).
50
51 Regarding systemd, wayland sessions usually require logind seat
52 interfaces. If you want to stick with OpenRC, you might need to look
53 into elogind then, which is now in Gentoo and integrated for some
54 Plasma wayland usages, but EFL stuff might need some ebuild changes too
55 to use that instead of systemd provided logind.
56
57
58 Mart

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