Bug 1273255 - Wayland Problems and X11
Summary: Wayland Problems and X11
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wayland
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-20 04:47 UTC by Leslie Satenstein
Modified: 2017-12-25 07:16 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-12-25 07:16:32 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Leslie Satenstein 2015-10-20 04:47:39 UTC
Description of problem:

With Wayland and tweaktool, one cannot invoke Firefox to initiate an extensions search. Works in Conventional Gnome

With Wayland, from a Gnome terminal
gparted /dev/sdb     fails with Can't open Window

works with Conventional Gnome

With Wayland, even though we have chosen to see ~ folder and trash on the desktop. these are not there.

With normal Gnome 
one can select the icon for home or trash that is shown  

Wayland is not ready.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Linux F23SDC 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 5 15:42:54 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


How reproducible:

Log in with Gnome Wayland option and attempt to connect to firefox extensions

try sudo gparted /dev/sdb  (with gnome Wayland option)


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:

To function as does standard (non Wayland Gnome)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan 2015-10-20 09:43:05 UTC
(In reply to Leslie Satenstein from comment #0)
> With Wayland and tweaktool, one cannot invoke Firefox to initiate an
> extensions search. Works in Conventional Gnome

Dupe of bug 1261672 ?

> With Wayland, from a Gnome terminal
> gparted /dev/sdb     fails with Can't open Window

gparted requires root access, so this is most likely an issue with access rights to the X11/Xwayland display when running as root. But this is pure conjecture because you haven't given much details about the error.

But gparted works fine in Xwayland here, assuming you set the access rights accordingly to allow windows running as root to connect to the X11 display, this is not an issue with Wayland per se.

> With Wayland, even though we have chosen to see ~ folder and trash on the
> desktop. these are not there.

See:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746286
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748347

and some discussion here:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2015-March/125700.html

That would be a bug for Nautilus, not Wayland.

Please make sure you file one bug per issue, otherwise it''s impossible to follow up an reassign bugs when it covers multiple different issues.

Comment 2 Leslie Satenstein 2016-08-17 03:02:00 UTC
Reopen for F25 please

Comment 3 Leslie Satenstein 2016-08-28 18:16:52 UTC
I am not really an indepth Linux internals person

I do some C coding, and occasionally, want to reformat a partition.

It is faster to reformat a partition than to delete recursively all the files and directories therein.

Ergo, from the terminal,  

sudo gparted /dev/sdx    #allows me to manipulate device sdx (with X11).

but I am unable to do this using Wayland.

All I want is to not have to continue with X11 for command line use and Wayland for everthing else.

Comment 4 Arnaud Kleinveld 2017-02-12 04:00:10 UTC
I have the same problem with gparted. It doesn't launch from console with the  error "(gpartedbin:5325): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0", and it also doesn't launch using the application icon.

Same for grub-customizer. Makes you think it's a permission issue. Once sudoed the user seems no longer to have access to DISPLAY :0

Found possible duplicates, bug 1405460 and bug 1403041

Comment 5 Leslie Satenstein 2017-04-09 17:30:36 UTC
Please mark as not solved with this F25 release, and with F26 coming up.

One can select gnome-xorg option at login and work with gparted.

I hope  Wayland soon gets an X API interface, allowing all X based software to work directly under Wayland.

Comment 6 Leslie Satenstein 2017-09-23 04:52:41 UTC
This is still an issue.  With Wayland, I can't execute gparted.
With xorg inferface, I am able to do so.

Comment 7 Leslie Satenstein 2017-12-25 07:16:32 UTC
This has been repaired in the past month. Gparted operates with Wayland now. I have also tested it with rawhide (for future Fedora 28).

As a note.  You can invoke it from gnome guji interface with Wayland,
but not with the terminal under Wayland.

I often do sudo gparted /dev/sd?  where & is selected from one of  a..e

With the Wayland Gnome /KDE interface it lists all drives, so my issue is solved.


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