This popped up on the Ubuntu GNOME QA mailing list yesterday:
An experimental GNOME wayland session is now available in vivid. Its not installed by default, however it would still be good to get some
testing, since at some point we will ship this on a standard install.
Some requirements
- You must be using open source drivers (neither AMD or NVIDIA support wayland yet)
- It is probably recommended to be using systemd init [1], although it may work ok with upstart.
- Some features are not quite 100% complete but upstream claim its stable enough for day-to-day use.
To test install gnome-session-wayland package and then select "GNOME on Wayland" from the gdm login menu.
If you file bugs from a wayland session please tag them with "gnome-wayland" so we can easily track them!
There was quickly an amendment to that:
Actually better to tag with "wayland-session", ubuntu-bug (apport) will soon auto-tag all bugs filed from within wayland sessions with this.
I've not had time to try it yet because I'm swamped with unrelated bug follow-up procedures but I think it's best to assume that things could totally go kablooey so please test in disposable installations :D
Quote:
An experimental GNOME wayland session is now available in vivid. Its not installed by default, however it would still be good to get some
testing, since at some point we will ship this on a standard install.
Some requirements
- You must be using open source drivers (neither AMD or NVIDIA support wayland yet)
- It is probably recommended to be using systemd init [1], although it may work ok with upstart.
- Some features are not quite 100% complete but upstream claim its stable enough for day-to-day use.
To test install gnome-session-wayland package and then select "GNOME on Wayland" from the gdm login menu.
If you file bugs from a wayland session please tag them with "gnome-wayland" so we can easily track them!
Quote:
Actually better to tag with "wayland-session", ubuntu-bug (apport) will soon auto-tag all bugs filed from within wayland sessions with this.
