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Cory_j

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Registered: 2012-02-16

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Web Browser's for Wayland?

i been trying to get web browser's working on a Wayland/Weston only set up and i cant find any real info for running web browser's on wayland can any one help me out?

Last edited by Cory_j (2013-07-05 01:17:35)

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2ManyDogs

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

https://ixquick.com/do/search?keyword=w … land+linux
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTM1OTk

You might also want to ask on the wayland mailing list.

Cory_j

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

https://ixquick.com/do/search?keyword=w … land+linux
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTM1OTk

You might also want to ask on the wayland mailing list.

ill find out how to get one working and post it back here i can get Wayland to run fine no Xorg at all the one from Phoronix is not working atm far as i know

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89c51

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

AFAIK (and haven't tested it myself) the only thing that is supposed to work is a Qt webkit thing.

http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/works/

No Firefox, no Chromium, no internetzzz on wayland

ConnorBehan

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

What about epiphany? It uses webkit + gtk3 which has a wayland backend.

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progandy

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

The stable webkitgtk is not compatible yet. If I remember correctly that has something to do with gl surfaces instead of egl. You might want to try the development version.

Edit: You can always use lynx or elinks

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WonderWoofy

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Edit: You can always use lynx or elinks

Heh... I was thinking the same thing.

89c51

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Edit: You can always use lynx or elinks

Heh... I was thinking the same thing.

I get scared every time someone proposes something like that. And its even scarier to think that some people actually browse the web like this and think its normal.

Army

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Define "normal"!

Iranon

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Next you'll tell me that watching videos in ASCII isn't normal...

WonderWoofy

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that usage of text based browsers was "normal".  But ACSII videos... are there other options?

HalosGhost

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that usage of text based browsers was "normal".  But ACSII videos... are there other options?

Haha, you're still watching videos in ASCII? That's just silly. Y'all need to upgrade to ANSI immediately.

Back on-topic: I'd love to see if anything comes of this, I have yet to find a web browser that functions natively in wayland.

All the best,

-HG

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ioos

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

On What works with Wayland? the last sentence reads:

QtWebKit (web browser) works.  Anything migrated to Qt5 is likely to work.  Qt5 Alpha was released 2012-04-03.

What about qupzillza-qt5?

blackout23

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Why not use chromium through XWayland?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VxqdEcFV0M

cookies

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Define "normal"!

I wanted to make a more serious joke out of that, but google gave me this. So, now we don't only know what normal is, we even know where it is.

89c51

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Why not use chromium through XWayland?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VxqdEcFV0M

He wants pure wayland. Sadly we are not there yet. But at least we are close.

WonderWoofy

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Apparently, according to the incredibly professional journalism that is phoronix , webkitgtk+ is currently being ported.

89c51

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Apparently, according to the incredibly professional journalism that is phoronix , webkitgtk+ is currently being ported.

I only care about FF to be honest. The devs don't seem to care that much. j/k

I read the related bugs and the gtk3 port seems to be near but i don't know if there are more things missing.

As i said we are close. Enlightenment 18 -if they release it before we all die- will be able to run purely with WL and gnome and kde are getting there.

progandy

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Apparently, according to the incredibly professional journalism that is phoronix , webkitgtk+ is currently being ported.

I compiled the dev-version and it works with dwb. I only have some strange problems with keyboard and mouse input. GTK3 doesn't register the events, maybe that's because I run xorg alongside it?

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mildred

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Do you know of a stable version of a browser released that works natively with wayland ? It seems the most promising should be the Qt/Webkit platform, but I haven't found a single browser out of the dozens I installed to actually work.

progandy

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

Do you know of a stable version of a browser released that works natively with wayland ? It seems the most promising should be the Qt/Webkit platform, but I haven't found a single browser out of the dozens I installed to actually work.

You might want to try a self-compiled version of chromium with ozone-wayland.

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89c51

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Re: Web Browser's for Wayland?

pypi posted a PKGBUILD here > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1474272 for Ozone-Wayland but he said it needs more work.

Seems its not as simple as ./configure make make install.

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