Re: Wayland in rawhide should work again

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 22:38 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 05/07/2014 10:37 PM, Kalev Lember wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quick heads up that GNOME Shell's Wayland compositor should be
> > back in a working condition in rawhide. A few things had gotten broken
> > during the 3.13.1 update: mutter-launch had lost it's setuid bit and
> > mutter itself was crashing at startup under Wayland. There was also
> > nothing that would pull in required xorg-x11-server-Xwayland.
> >
> > These should all be fixed, thanks to elad661's testing and drago01's
> > expert know-how and my monkey building of fixes they found.
> >
> > If you want to test, wait for tomorrow's rawhide compose and install
> > gnome-session-wayland-session.
>
> Arr. I accidentally sent this to wrong list. Was supposed to be
> desktop lists fedoraproject org!
>
> Sorry for the noise :-)

Not that much of noise, it's still pretty relevant. I would add that you
can test rawhide without obliterating your system by trying out "Fedora
Atomic" (a version of ostree for RPM systems). Instructions are
available at:
http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/#/installation

/me goes to make room on his laptop

Cheers