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Created Feb 06, 2017 by intrigeri @intrigeriMaintainer5 of 11 tasks completed5/11 tasks

Wayland

Originally created by @intrigeri on #12213 (Redmine)

Run the GNOME session on Wayland instead of X.Org, and adjust whatever is needed, such as:

We run quite a few of GUI apps under gksudo/pkexec/sudo, such as the Unsafe Browser. This can be worked around for apps that run via XWayland (i.e. not Wayland-native apps) with hacks like xhost +si:localuser:root, which might be acceptable as a temporary transition measure, as long as there’s a clear plan to fix that at some point (since it defeats some of the benefits of switching to Wayland in the first place, such as security improvement, a11y / IBus / on-screen keyboard support in all graphical apps)
Consider dropping the 89cc641f39a5414e763112f698739bb2351da7d8 hack: there are rumors that GDM’s session does not linger after login on Wayland.

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i.e. without waiting for the "switch to Wayland" flag day

#15828 (closed)
#14585 (closed)
#14717 (closed)
#14718
#15142
#18007 (closed)
#18020
#8309
#18120 (closed)
#8573 (the only X.Org specific bits remaining in our test suite are about Pidgin)

Edited Apr 27, 2021 by intrigeri

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