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lord.garbage

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Registered: 2014-04-28

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Browser in Xwayland unresponsive (incl. video)

I use Wayland with Xwayland and Weston and run X11 applications from an Xserver that is running in Wayland/Weston. This currently includes my browsers, Firefox and Chromium, as the currently cannot run natively on Wayland/Weston to my knowledge. The problem is that klicking on any menu item will not have any effect. E.g. in Chromium no new tab will be opened when I klick on New Tab. In general no menu item has any kind of effect. I tried issuing

export GDK_BACKEND=wayland

to no avail. The problem affects both of my browsers, Firefox and Chromium. Other apps do not show this kind of behaviour. Can somebody provide an explanation and preferably a solution?

Here is a link to a video showing what I mean: https://www.dropbox.com/s/547phqk0qpuz9 … .webm?dl=0

Last edited by lord.garbage (2014-08-31 21:11:43)

blackout23

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 781

Re: [SOLVED] Browser in Xwayland unresponsive (incl. video)

I tested Xwayland in Weston and Gnome 3.12 on Wayland and the latter handles Xwayland windows much better. It might be just a Weston shortcoming.

lord.garbage

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Registered: 2014-04-28

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Browser in Xwayland unresponsive (incl. video)

It still eludes me as only the two browsers, firefox and chromium, have this problem so far... I cannot figure out if the problem is gtk or something unrelated to gtk or related to Westons X11 window manager...

lord.garbage

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Registered: 2014-04-28

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Browser in Xwayland unresponsive (incl. video)

The solution can be found here and for now consists in applying a patch to the weston package in abs:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/w … 16984.html

Reded

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From: Manchester, England

Registered: 2012-02-21

Posts: 242

Re: [SOLVED] Browser in Xwayland unresponsive (incl. video)

For what it's worth, Midori-gtk3 runs on Wayland natively (Tested in Enlightenment on Wayland, which doesn't support Xwayland yet). Might be worth looking into if you're really wanting to run a Wayland setup!

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