gnome-session depends on xwayland
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mutter |
Confirmed
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Medium
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
With GNOME Wayland it should be possible to run GNOME without any legacy X or xwayland support. It should be an optional dependency, not a hard dependency.
If anything, it should be a gnome-session-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Classic:GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 1 12:26:37 2017
DisplayManager: lightdm
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-26 (1191 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in mutter: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
tags: | added: artful bionic |
Honestly, I don't think there's any intention to not have XWayland installed by default. It could be useful if XWayland is only started when needed, which is what GNOME #759538 is about.
By the way, in Ubuntu 17.04 there is no separate gnome-session- wayland package; it's been merged into gnome-session.