On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 10:36 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Hi, > I was going through most frequent crashers in Fedora 25 and vino is > in > TOP10. When I looked at it I realized it crashed on Wayland because > for > screen sharing you need X. [1] > It's a bit unfortunate that we have vino, which by default doesn't > work, in the default installation and its functionality is exposed in > Control Center. I wonder if it'd make a sense to patch the sharing > module in the control center to check if the session is running on > Wayland and if so, to disable the dialog. > > My understanding is that screen sharing is moving to the compositor > or > Pinos [2] and vino will be deprecated, but in the meantime we > shouldn't > expose its functionality on Wayland. > Thanks for bringing that up. Yes, Jonas has in the past worked on prototyping screensharing in the compositor, using pinos. We will have to complete this work and land it. In the meantime, vino should of course not crash, but exit cleanly if X is not available. _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
