firefox on xwayland unusable after gnome autostart
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Early starts of firefox on gnome on wayland on Ubuntu 20.04.4 are unusable. Early meaning directly after session start from gdm.
If I put firefox.desktop into ~/.config/
For avoidance of ambiguity, the mode affected by the bug is windowProtocol=
The bug can be worked around, either method is sufficient on its own:
a) forcing windowProtocol=
b) starting firefox later, through a prepended sleep 10 call
Mostly for documenting the workarounds, I understand that this might not be worth fixing as firefox snap approaches similar quality, see also #1970884