Package: foot
Version: 1.6.4-1
Severity: wishlist
XFCE 4.16 (Debian 11) doesn't support Wayland apps.
However, foot still appears in its menu.
When clicking the menu, there is no user-visible impact of an error.
This appears in .xsession-errors:
info: main.c:356: version: 1.6.4 +ime
info: main.c:363: arch: x86_64/64-bit
info: main.c:367: locale: en_AU.UTF-8
err: config.c:2109: no configuration found, using defaults
err: wayland.c:1111: failed to connect to wayland; no compositor running?
info: main.c:523: goodbye
Can you make the menu item only appear where it will work (e.g.
whitelist/blacklist named desktop environments)?
Obviously you cannot pop up an X11 error message -- you don't want to implement
X at all.
However, at least XFCE (usually) accepts XDG notify events.
So you could send a notification message to cause an error popup, e.g.
Wayland environment not found. Is your desktop X11-only?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
