![]() ![]() Unfortunately there has been no support for the binary driver in XWayland and thus and X applications (which there are a lot of) would not be getting any HW accelerated 3D graphics support. So you can run a native Wayland session on top of the binary driver and you had that ability for a very long time. So we will work with the SDL devs to come up with a solution here, we just don’t know the exact shape and and form the solution will take yet, so stay tuned.įinally there is the NVidia binary driver support question. Thanks to the great effort by Valve and others we got a huge catalog of games available under Linux now and we want to ensure that those keep running and runs well. One last item Hans de Goede is looking at is improving SDLs Wayland support in regards to how it deals with scaling of lower resolution games. This should fix a few applications out there which only works when run as root currently. In general running desktop apps as root isn’t considered adviceable from a security point of view, but since it always worked under X we feel it should continue to be there for XWayland too. Once that work is complete an X server (XWayland) would only be started if you actually run a X application and when you shut that application down the X server will be shut down too.Īnother change that Hans de Goede is working on at the moment is allowing X applications to be run as root under XWayland. We are optimistic that can declare this work done within a GNOME release or two. Olivier Fourdan is working on removing those settings daemon bits as part of his work to improve the Wayland accessibility support. The work is mostly done now for the shell itself, but there are a few items left in regards to the GNOME Setting daemon where we need to expel the X dependency. So refactoring everything needed to remove any code that makes the assumption that it is running on top of X.org has been a major effort. For those wondering why that has taken so much time, well it is simple for 20 years developers could safely assume we where running atop of X. The single biggest goal currently is fully removing our X Windowing System dependency, meaning that GNOME Shell should be able to run without needing XWayland. Wayland – Our primary focus is still on finishing the Wayland transition and we feel we are getting close now, and thank you to the community for their help in testing and verifying Wayland over the last few years. This is not an exhaustive list, but some of the more major items we are working on. So I hope everyone is enjoying Fedora Workstation 30, but we don’t rest on our laurels here so I thought I share some of things we are working on for Fedora Workstation 31.
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