Re: [R] Wayland backend for R

2021-06-23 Thread Phillips Rogfield
Dear Robert, Thank you very much for your suggestion. I solved by compiling R with --with-cairo, and installing cairo-devel and pango-devel. Notably, you also need pango-devel. The configure script does not complain if it is missing, but then plotting won't work. Best regards. On 23/06/2021

Re: [R] Wayland backend for R

2021-06-23 Thread Robert Knight
Perhaps software rendering would work. Export RSTUDIO_CHROMIUM_ARGUMENTS="--disable-gpu" /usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:01 AM Phillips Rogfield wrote: > Hello Paul, > > thank you for your kind advice. > > RStudio doesn't start at all this way. It gives me the following

Re: [R] Wayland backend for R

2021-06-23 Thread Phillips Rogfield
Hello Paul, thank you for your kind advice. RStudio doesn't start at all this way. It gives me the following error: $ QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland rstudio Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway. QSocketNotifier: Can only be used wi

Re: [R] Wayland backend for R

2021-06-22 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi I do not know of any Wayland backend for R. You might be able to try the R Studio IDE configured for Wayland and see how its graphics device performs ? https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/4686 Paul On 23/06/21 1:25 am, Phillips Rogfield wrote: I have compiled R from source and I ha

[R] Wayland backend for R

2021-06-22 Thread Phillips Rogfield
I have compiled R from source and I had to install the X11 libraries. I use Wayland, and I am having problems plotting on X11 (I guess it uses XWayland) with this version. Is there a Wayland backend for R? Some configuration option I need to turn on in order to use it? __