On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:08 PM, kristof <saposcat@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
