Re: Critical bug on Fedora 30 / Ubuntu 18.04 when using Wayland

On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 19:37 +0200, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Inkscape 1.0a isn't usable at all for me at the moment on Linux when 
> running it under Wayland; it appears to be missing most of the mouse 
> events or something. I cannot draw even the simplest geometry! I
> haven't 
> figured out how to make a screencast that shows the mousepointer,
> but 
> maybe that's another Wayland issue ;-). Can't show it to you because
> of 
> this, but it's really bad.
> 
> I don't recall any reports about this and cannot find anything in
> the 
> Gitlab issues either, but surely others must be experiencing this
> too... 
> Unless everyone else is still on Xorg. I've reproduced this on both 
> Fedora 30, with current trunk, as well as on Ubuntu Gnome 18.04.2,
> using 
> the inkscape-trunk PPA. When I use Xorg, the problem disappears, on
> both 
> distros. This is rather problematic though, because all (?) linux 
> distros that have gnome also have Wayland enabled by default these
> days.
> 
> Any pointers? A bug report maybe? Otherwise I will file one myself,
> and 
> start some debugging.

I use master/trunk with Wayland on Fedora 29 without too many problems.
The one thing that doesn't work is the "Gnome docking library" (I have
a long term plan to replace it).

Tav


> Best regards,
> 
> Diederik
> 
> 
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