On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 13:48 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > 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... Thanks. I tried it but it's not ready for prime time. It starts up and seems to restore my session, but is very laggy. Plasma is consuming around 70% of my CPU (an i7 with 16GB). It also dies when logging out (i.e. I get a blank screen and have to reset the box). Back to X for now. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
