Bug 1902983 - chromium-freeworld 87 does not work properly with wayland
Summary: chromium-freeworld 87 does not work properly with wayland
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: chromium
Version: 33
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-12-01 03:20 UTC by Kevin Donovan
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-12-04 18:06:55 UTC
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Description Kevin Donovan 2020-12-01 03:20:21 UTC
Description of problem:
This is for chromium-freeworld, version 87.  chromium-browser works fine.  The problem is that it does not work using the new ozone capability for wayland.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 87


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try running the command: chromium-freeworld --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
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Actual results: Error message: cannot open DISPLAY :0


Expected results: Run the browser as a wayland application.


Additional info: There's a simple workaround.  The problem is that chromium-freeworld is a shell script, and apparently, it tries to force running as an X11 application before doing an exec of /usr/lib64/chromium-freeworld/chromium-freeworld.  The workaround is to run /usr/lib64/chromium-freeworld/chromium-freeworld directly, instead of /usr/bin/chromium-freeworld.  This works perfectly for me, but it would probably be better to modify the shell script.

The wayland capability is important, at least on my machine.  If I run a GNOME wayland session, chromium is extremely slow when run using X11, so much so that it's unusable.  When run as a wayland application, it runs without problem.

Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2020-12-04 18:06:55 UTC
chromium-freeworld is not a Fedora package (and I am not the maintainer). Please open a bug in rpmfusion's bugtracker.


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