Re: F25 runs wayland by default

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 14:48 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Neal Becker wrote:
>> >
>> > > I see that F25 will run wayland by default instead of Xorg.
>> >
>> > That applies to fedora workstation (only).
>> >
>> > > Will kde run on wayland?
>> >
>> > plasma has initial support for wayland, but I would personally characterize
>> > it as fairly preliminary and alpha/tech-preview quality so far.
>>
>> With the current progress, it might be pretty much usable with 5.8. It
>> has some performance issues, I had one crash so far (but that's
>> actually not bad at all!) and one big feature missing is keyboard
>> layout switching. Otherwise when I use it, I sometimes forget I'm on
>> Wayland. Of course there are still some rough edges regarding Wayland,
>> we will see if Workstation will switch for real in F25 or both
>> Workstation and Plasma will switch together in F26.
>
> Seeing that F25 did switch to Wayland for the Workstation spin, is
> there any more news regarding KDE? If so, how does one switch to
> Wayland (there seems to be a complete lack of easy to find
> documentation).

Install plasma-workspace-wayland and then select Plasma (Wayland)
session in your login manager.

I'd say I was too optimistic, 5.8 is not yet there. But as always -
more folks trying it, more bugs, better feedback...

Jaroslav

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