Re: Call for Discussion : New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux

2021-07-15 Thread Mario Torre
I tend to agree with this, we certainly need to identify the underlying APIs that are problematic (screenshot and mouse/keyboard control as far as I am aware), then see what we can do from there, and I would like to first address the XWayland use case before turning into a fully fledged new tool

Re: Call for Discussion : New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux

2021-07-10 Thread Alexey Ushakov
> I would be very interested in your experience here, when you say you > have a lot of users on different desktops, what are the combinations > you encounter, can you share this information, can we be sure GTK is > not part of those distributions? I’ve looked through the list of issues that we hav

Re: Call for Discussion : New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux

2021-07-09 Thread Mario Torre
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 12:17 PM Alexey Ushakov wrote: > > > > On 8 Jul 2021, at 19:11, Mario Torre wrote: > > [resending with hopefully the correct email address as I have > completely lost which mailing list I'm subscribed to with which > email!!!] > > I tend to agree with this, we certainly nee

Re: Call for Discussion : New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux

2021-07-08 Thread Mario Torre
[resending with hopefully the correct email address as I have completely lost which mailing list I'm subscribed to with which email!!!] I tend to agree with this, we certainly need to identify the underlying APIs that are problematic (screenshot and mouse/keyboard control as far as I am aware), th

Re: Call for Discussion : New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux

2021-07-07 Thread Alexey Ushakov
Hi, > Possible ways to implement this: > > taking screenshot: > open issue against Wayland, may be resolved someday: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/32 > > https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-

Re: Call for Discussion : New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux

2021-07-07 Thread Alexander Zvegintsev
(adding awt-dev) Let me add a few comments. already Wayland is the default on RHEL 8, OL 8, Ubuntu 21.04 and I am sure others too. It is the default, but not in every case. Wayland may be turned off deliberately if you are using a Nvidia graphics card, so you need to take extra steps to get