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Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS to use Xorg by default
- fwsgonzo 9y agoI just recently had a problem with Wayland where qemu with VGA would not start at all, complaining about SDL not being able to find a video device. I eventually tried just logging out and then into Xorg and then it started working again. EDIT: had to run qemu with root which may have been a factor
- rdtsc 9y agoI don't blame them. I had to switch to Xorg as well after a while. Wayland wouldn't allow launching gui applications which required sudo. Had to manually run xhost beforehand. Drag and drop was broken and a few other issues.
- tuchsen 9y agoI've run into similar issues and had to switch back to Xorg. Aside from the major issues, the small things really killed my enthusiasm for Wayland. The one that really forced me back to Xorg is an extension for Gnome called "No Title Bar" no longer working. It's such a small thing that I don't expect anyone else to be excited about it, but for me, Gnome just doesn't feel right anymore without it. I wonder what percentage of 17.10 users have similar nitpicks and switched back. I like the promised enhanced security and performance of Wayland, but it's gonna hurt when they do force the switch.
- usr1106 9y agoOnly 15 points after 22 hours... For Linux desktop users (well, the technical ones) this story should be interesting news. Looks like nobody bothers to get excited anymore after so many years of hopes and disappointments.