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Sincerely hope not, I’ll be forced to go back to X11 for jetbrains tools and everything electron based. (as the version that ships almost never has wayland sup
by dijit 4y ago
Sincerely hope not, I’ll be forced to go back to X11 for jetbrains tools and everything electron based.
(as the version that ships almost never has wayland support enabled in the sandbox browser- and even force enabling it where it isn’t compiled out crashes it randomly)
EDIT: why did I get downvoted for that? It’s extremely true and I’ve tried to run without Xwayland a lot.
- jhugo 4y agoWith Chromium having decent Wayland support since a while now, I expect Electron apps will catch up eventually. A major DE deprecating Xwayland would give packagers of Electron apps a reason to get around to it.
- Hackbraten 4y agoHave you had the chance to report those random crashes as bugs (against Electron or your compositor?) I figure that would be helpful for all. I’ve been using Electron apps natively on Wayland for quite a while with those force-enable flags you mentioned. Few issues so far. At one point, the apps indeed started crashing. Turns out this was due to the compositor (wl-roots) evolving while the Chromium team didn’t get the memo. They quickly fixed it in Chromium though but not before people started filing bugs. Didn’t take long for their patch to bubble up to the next Electron patch release. The sooner people report those crashes, the better for everyone involved.
- kaba0 4y agoIt won’t be deprecated, the very reason it exists is that there will always be plenty of software that won’t get ported to Wayland.