Bug#872536: suckless-tools: dmenu fails to capture the keyboard from wayland windows
Control: tags -1 upstream On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:09PM, Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider wrote: > Thank you Ilias. It does seem like using an alternative implementation > on (X)Wayland is best for now. It's unfortunate that supporting Wayland > seems to be quite a lot of work. Due to a bunch of other > incompatibilities I disabled Wayland on my systems for now. Should I > leave this issue open for others or would you rather close it? Let's keep it open, until it has been resolved (or until the suckless community decides they won't support Wayland). Cheers, -- Ilias
Bug#872536: suckless-tools: dmenu fails to capture the keyboard from wayland windows
Thank you Ilias. It does seem like using an alternative implementation on (X)Wayland is best for now. It's unfortunate that supporting Wayland seems to be quite a lot of work. Due to a bunch of other incompatibilities I disabled Wayland on my systems for now. Should I leave this issue open for others or would you rather close it? Cheers, Lorenz
Bug#872536: suckless-tools: dmenu fails to capture the keyboard from wayland windows
Hi Lorenz, On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:10AM, Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > > since gnome-session 3.24.1-2 was uploaded to testing, Gnome uses wayland by > default. However, dmenu fails to capture the keyboard when a wayland window > (e.g. gnome-terminal) is in the foreground. It works fine when an X11 > (Xwayland) window (e.g. chromium) is active. Are there any plans to support > wayland? Wayland has been discussed a number of times in the suckless mailing list[1][2][3], and judging by the replies[4][5] it seems to me that the community has yet to decide if they are in favor of or against migrating to Wayland. There seems to be a port for dmenu[6], but requires that two additional libraries be packaged for Debian. There is also bemenu[7], which is written for Wayland and is inspired from dmenu. That said, it seems that it will take same time before dmenu could support Wayland. [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1302/14575.html [2] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1608/29977.html [3] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1307/16905.html [4] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1307/16928.html [5] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1608/29978.html [6] https://github.com/michaelforney/dmenu [7] https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu -- Ilias
Bug#872536: suckless-tools: dmenu fails to capture the keyboard from wayland windows
Package: suckless-tools Version: 43-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, since gnome-session 3.24.1-2 was uploaded to testing, Gnome uses wayland by default. However, dmenu fails to capture the keyboard when a wayland window (e.g. gnome-terminal) is in the foreground. It works fine when an X11 (Xwayland) window (e.g. chromium) is active. Are there any plans to support wayland? Cheers, Lorenz -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages suckless-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.24-14 ii libcap2-bin 1:2.25-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.12.3-0.2 ii libpam0g1.1.8-3.6 ii libx11-62:1.6.4-3 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1+b2 ii libxinerama12:1.1.3-1+b3 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1+b2 suckless-tools recommends no packages. Versions of packages suckless-tools suggests: pn dwm pn stterm pn surf -- no debconf information
