LibreOffice GTK3 On Wayland Starts To Work

Written by Michael Larabel in LibreOffice on 17 July 2015 at 11:31 AM EDT. 1 Comment
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The recent efforts of the LibreOffice GTK3 port is starting to pay off with this open-source office suite beginning to run on Wayland.

Caolán McNamara who has been hacking on the GTK3 VCL plug for LibreOffice shared todayt that it can now launch on Wayland, displays the interface, and the interaction is mostly all functionality. However, there isn't yet window resizing support and there are some other issues to still work through.


More details via this blog post.
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