Now that I know that the Nvidia problem is due to Nvidia choosing to build their driver in a way that doesn't allow shared memory...
"While not a big deal on machines with 2+GB ram on older machines with 1 GB it does represent a bit of an issue." - Bug #725434 It's seeming more reasonable to go ahead and enable cairo-gl and just recommend that people use Nouveau instead of the proprietary drivers on machines with less than 2gb ram. (I say this as I've been using Nouveau on a machine with 8gb ram.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954352 Title: Enable wayland backend Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Add --enable-wayland-backend to build flags. I believe this is all that's necessary for wayland to work with the existing Precise gtk packages. Wayland has one released version, 0.85, which is in the precise archives: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wayland/ I'm told gtk 3.4 is (and will remain) compatable with it. Since gtk 3.4 is apparently already packaged for Precise, all that remains to be able to use some gtk applications via wayland is this build flag. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/954352/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp