Ubuntu 13.04 Enables The Wayland Support For GTK+

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 13.04 Enables The Wayland Support For GTK+

While in December Canonical said they wouldn't fix GTK+ support for Wayland, earlier this month they decided they would enable the Wayland back-end for GTK+ in Ubuntu 13.04. That change has now been made and Ubuntu's GTK+ tool-kit will function in a Wayland environment...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI4NDg

[mark45]

I launched weston, opened a terminal, exported GDK_BACKEND=wayland
and tried running gedit, gcalc, gnome-terminal, they all fail with segmentation fault.
Used 13.04 amd64.

[Rexilion]

I launched weston, opened a terminal, exported GDK_BACKEND=wayland
and tried running gedit, gcalc, gnome-terminal, they all fail with segmentation fault.
Used 13.04 amd64.

Perhaps you have to wait a little. The fix was released just 22 hours ago. Make sure you have gtk version 3.6.4-0ubuntu2.

[uid313]

Firefox and Chromium does not work because they use old GTK2.
Firefox is in progress of being ported to GTK3 tho.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699

gedit and gnome-terminal doesn't work when launching straight, but they do work if you run them via 'dbus-launch', such as 'dbus-launch gedit'.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1106158

[Rexilion]

Firefox and Chromium does not work because they use old GTK2.
Firefox is in progress of being ported to GTK3 tho.

Launchpad comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...52/comments/94

I find it odd that these are explicitly mentioned in the bug report. Of course they don't work, because they use GTK2. However, isn't xwayland supposed to pick this up??

[Calinou]

Firefox is in progress of being ported to GTK3 tho.

Won't it make it incompatible with Windows and OS X?

[gQuigs]

Won't it make it incompatible with Windows and OS X?

Nope, because Firefox doesn't use GTK on Windows or OS X. GTK is just for us Linux users (including BSD, Solaris, etc I think..)

[smitty3268]

Firefox and Chromium does not work because they use old GTK2.
Firefox is in progress of being ported to GTK3 tho.

Firefox also has direct calls to X in it as well - and I'm guessing Chromium probably has some too.

[portets43]

Firefox also has direct calls to X in it as well - and I'm guessing Chromium probably has some too.

Google wants to mitigate all this by porting Chromium to OpenGL.

[newwen]

For applications not ported yet to just use libWayland instead of Xlib, how does one run them under Weston, using a Xorg server inside weston?