no wayland support

[Daniel Stone]

Inkscape does not run under Wayland at all, even with the (still-)experimental GTK+3 support. If you try, it crashes hard as it calls add_x11_tracking_for_screen on something which isn't actually an X11 Display.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Inkscape indeed uses X11 libs in src/ege-color-prof-tracker.cpp, where the add_x11_tracking_for_screen() function is defined. The code seems to rely on the GDK X11 backend. I guess we should use the Wayland backend (https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Wayland-Interaction.html) instead when necessary.

[Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free)]

This is an issue with Fedora 25 which enables Wayland by default.

The Inkscape package provided by Fedora 25 does work on Wayland (using xwayland).

[Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free)]

Traceback:

#0 0x00007ffff41d395a in XInternAtom () at /lib64/libX11.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff75074a9 in add_x11_tracking_for_screen(_GdkScreen*, _ScreenTrack*) () at /home/tavmjong/Src/inkscape/dpirun/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so
#2 0x00007ffff7507889 in ege_color_prof_tracker_new () at /home/tavmjong/Src/inkscape/dpirun/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so
#3 0x00007ffff744abe4 in SPDesktopWidget::init(SPDesktopWidget*) () at /home/tavmjong/Src/inkscape/dpirun/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so
#4 0x00007ffff5aa87fb in g_type_create_instance () at /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff5a8a69b in g_object_new_internal () at /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff5a8c0ad in g_object_newv () at /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0x00007ffff5a8c864 in g_object_new () at /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 0x00007ffff7448f10 in SPDesktopWidget::createInstance(SPNamedView*) () at /home/tavmjong/Src/inkscape/dpirun/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so
#9 0x00007ffff7449406 in sp_desktop_widget_new(SPNamedView*) () at /home/tavmjong/Src/inkscape/dpirun/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so
#10 0x00007ffff750c3d2 in sp_file_new(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () at /home/tavmjong/Src/inkscape/dpirun/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so
#11 0x00007ffff750c72d in sp_file_new_default() () at /home/tavmjong/Src/inkscape/dpirun/bin/../lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.so
#12 0x00000000004096dd in sp_main_gui(int, char const**) ()
#13 0x00007fffed9f2401 in __libc_start_main () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#14 0x000000000040598a in _start ()

[Diederik van Lierop (mail-diedenrezi)]

Inkscape runs fine though when started through Eclipse; I only noticed the crashes when I tried running from the command line

[Gabriel Rauter (raetiacorvus)]

Running with GDK_BACKEND=x11 can be used as a workaround to run inkscape trough XWayland till inkscape gets proper wayland support.

[Gwyn Ciesla (limburgher)]

This has been working on Wayland for awhile, and currently does with 0.92.1, but when I update to a bzr snapshot and build with cmake, it doesn't.

The following are the cmake flags I'm using:

        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE:STRING="-DNDEBUG" \
        -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE:STRING="-DNDEBUG" \
        -DCMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS_RELEASE:STRING="-DNDEBUG" \
        -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=ON \
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr \
        -DINCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=/usr/include \
        -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=/usr/lib64 \
        -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=/etc \
        -DSHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/share \

Might it be the change in gtkmm to 30?

[Gwyn Ciesla (limburgher)]

Has anyone had a look at this? The build currently available for Fedora 26 doesn't launch in Wayland. I can ship a GDK_BACKEND workaround but that's far from optimal. I'd love to see this fixed before Fedora 26 GA. If there's anything I can do to assist, please let me know.

[Martin Owens (doctormo)]

I don't think so. Usually people would report in the mailing list or some other channel. Do you want to bring this up as an important blocker for the next release?

[Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free)]

Fixed in trunk by adding run-time backend check. (GTK is built with both X11 and Wayland backends enabled on Linux.)

The X11 specific code is used to attach a color profile to a particular "screen". From GDK 3.10 there is only one screen (one needs to attach a profile to a monitor instead). This will also need to be updated for the Wayland era.

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Hi, this bug tracker is being decommissioned. It appears there is already an issue about Wayland below, please follow that for further updates.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/221
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy