A project to rid GNOME of bugs and flaws that appear when running on top of Wayland

Hans De Goede (Hans de Goede), a Fedora Linux developer working for Red Hat, presented the "Wayland Itches" project, aimed at fixing bugs and solving problems that arise in the daily work with the GNOME desktop running on top of Wayland.

Even though Fedora has been offering Wayland-based GNOME session by default for quite some time now, and Hans is one of developers libinput and input systems for Wayland, until recently he continued to use an X server session in his daily work due to various minor flaws in the Wayland-based environment. Hans decided to get rid of these problems on his own, switched to Wayland by default and founded the Wayland Itches project, within which he began to fix pop-up errors and problems. Hans encourages users to email him ("hdegoede at redhat.com") with comments about GNOME's work in Walyand with details, and he will try to resolve any issues that arise.

Currently, he has already managed to get the TopIcons add-on to work with Wayland (there were problems with looping, high CPU usage, and broken icon clicks) and to solve problems with hotkeys and shortcuts in VirtualBox virtual machines. Hans tried to switch to assembly Firefox with Wayland but had to downgrade to x11 build из-за arising problems, which he is now trying to eliminate together with the developers of Mozilla.

Source: opennet.ru

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