Bug 2177283 - Run Thunderbird on wayland by default
Summary: Run Thunderbird on wayland by default
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird
Version: 38
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-03-10 17:44 UTC by Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden
Modified: 2024-05-21 14:30 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2024-05-21 14:30:37 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden 2023-03-10 17:44:02 UTC
Description of problem:

My initial search started after I often had visual artifacts after leaving suspend. I suspected this was because it's using XWayland. Thanks to the very helpful https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/thunderbird-for-wayland/ I found out you can easily run Thunderbird on Wayland.

I think Thunderbird should, like Firefox, default to using Wayland.

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

thunderbird-102.8.0-1.fc36.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Thunderbird
2. Start Thunderbird on a Wayland session
3. Run xlsclients

Actual results:

thunderbird runs on XWayland

Expected results:

Thunderbird is not an X client because it uses native Wayland support

Additional info:

thunderbird-wayland exists, but I'd expect this to be the default.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2023-03-21 09:11:02 UTC
We'll switch that for next ESR line release (115.0 and so on).

Comment 2 Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden 2023-03-21 14:14:50 UTC
Thanks! After switching to the Wayland backend for a while I can also confirm that my Thunderbird crashes/visual artifacts after unsuspending my laptop have gone away and that's much more stable for me.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2023-04-25 18:20:16 UTC
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Comment 4 Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden 2023-05-03 11:05:01 UTC
I didn't check, but given you said next ESR I think it still applies to F38 and I'd like to keep this open.

Comment 5 John Mellor 2023-05-04 21:25:25 UTC
See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2193245 for a similar issue under Wayland.

Comment 6 Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden 2023-11-01 12:26:04 UTC
(In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #1)
> We'll switch that for next ESR line release (115.0 and so on).

I see Thunderbird on Fedora 38 was updated to the next ESR, but I still see the separate desktop entry. Is there technical reason this hasn't happened yet, or was it forgotten?

Comment 7 John Mellor 2023-11-01 12:39:21 UTC
Closely related to bug#2244508 (tbird-wayland should be the package visible in the GUI installer, not tbird-without-wayland)

Comment 8 Laurențiu Nicola 2024-04-10 10:16:40 UTC
> We'll switch that for next ESR line release (115.0 and so on).

Hello from the future!

I just want to note that thunderbird-wayland is a bit annoying to use right now, since the two packages show up as "Thunderbird on ..." and "Thunderbird" in the GNOME app search results, and there's no way to tell which is which. They even have the same icon.

Comment 9 Martin Stransky 2024-04-10 10:29:42 UTC
thunderbird-wayland will be removed with TB 128.0 rebase where TB will run natively on Wayland. thunderbird-wayland is kind of testing/experimental one right now.

Comment 10 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-07 15:59:42 UTC
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 38 on 2024-05-21.
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Comment 11 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-21 14:30:37 UTC
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