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#1 2016-04-05 17:17:03
- Trieforce
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Shouldn't GDM be dependent on wayland instead of xorg-xserver?
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … ckages/gdm
As far as I understand Xorg is not a requirement anymore and GDM is using wayland by default. Yet there is no wayland in dependencies and xserver is not optional. Should I contact maintainers about that?
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#2 2016-04-05 20:44:08
- clfarron4
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Re: Shouldn't GDM be dependent on wayland instead of xorg-xserver?
Wayland should be installed on your system because it is required by GTK2/3.
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#3 2016-04-05 23:43:35
- Trieforce
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Re: Shouldn't GDM be dependent on wayland instead of xorg-xserver?
Yes, I do. Main point is, though, to make xorg-xserver optional, because it's secondary choice by design now.
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#4 2016-04-06 02:27:57
- Thorsten Reinbold
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Re: Shouldn't GDM be dependent on wayland instead of xorg-xserver?
Yes, I do. Main point is, though, to make xorg-xserver optional, because it's secondary choice by design now.
Where do you have this info from? Afaik, wayland isn't that far for now to replace xorg in all ways, so it wouldn't be a common replacement for all users. Xorg works in more circumstances.
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#5 2016-04-06 03:03:33
- Scimmia
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Re: Shouldn't GDM be dependent on wayland instead of xorg-xserver?
Trieforce wrote:Yes, I do. Main point is, though, to make xorg-xserver optional, because it's secondary choice by design now.
Where do you have this info from? Afaik, wayland isn't that far for now to replace xorg in all ways, so it wouldn't be a common replacement for all users. Xorg works in more circumstances.
Nobody said "in all ways". Simply, GDM defaults to using wayland.
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#6 2016-04-10 21:45:36
- wast3
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Re: Shouldn't GDM be dependent on wayland instead of xorg-xserver?
Nobody said "in all ways". Simply, GDM defaults to using wayland.
The GDM version currently in testing seems to default to gdm-x-session. If I set the GDK_TOOLKIT=wayland environment variable it crashes systematically.
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#7 2016-04-10 22:59:30
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Re: Shouldn't GDM be dependent on wayland instead of xorg-xserver?
If you're using proprietary drivers it does. Otherwise it defaults to wayland.
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