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odror

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Looking for arch or aur version of gnome 49 witjh X11. Wayland fails

Hi

I have a special situation with 5 4k monitors. gnome wayland can only handle 4.
is there a version  of gnome 49, which is compiled with X11 possibly  in the AUR.

I like gnome and I prefer not to switch to plasma or cancel one of my monitors.

seth

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Re: Looking for arch or aur version of gnome 49 witjh X11. Wayland fails

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_system but you'll hit a brick wall w/ v50 in a couple of months

gnome wayland can only handle 4.

Is this an arbitrary restriction because gnome has decided that nobody uses more than 4 outputs or consequence of dysfunctional multi-GPU setup?
If the former, find a less **** DE. If the latter: look into that problem,

Moderator Edit : although your sentiment is (very) understandable, no name calling please.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-09-25 08:57:07)

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odror

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Re: Looking for arch or aur version of gnome 49 witjh X11. Wayland fails

So regarding my question. Where can I find gnome 49 with x11 support.

Scimmia

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Re: Looking for arch or aur version of gnome 49 witjh X11. Wayland fails

He answered your question, click the link. You have to build it yourself.

odror

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Re: Looking for arch or aur version of gnome 49 witjh X11. Wayland fails

I was hoping for a binary link. If I need to compile, which package(s) I need. Is GDM and GNOME-SHELL enough. I know that by version 50 I will not be able to do that, but maybe then they will fix the issue with the monitors.

weaseal

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Re: Looking for arch or aur version of gnome 49 witjh X11. Wayland fails

You can use this, you have to build it yourself, but it only takes a few minutes: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=308543