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

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 07:37:44PM +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.

As Tav mentioned, he's tested Inkscape on Wayland.  I'm not aware anyone
else has.

> 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.

Ubuntu does not have Wayland enabled by default.  Presumably same with
most Ubu-derivs.  Dunno about Debian.

> Any pointers? A bug report maybe? Otherwise I will file one myself, and
> start some debugging.

Yes, bug reports would be helpful.  File them at https://inkscape.org/report

I've not been running across many Wayland bug reports so far, other than
what Tav's mentioned, although I'm just skimming mostly and it's
possible I've just overlooked them.  But I don't think you'd be
duplicating efforts filing new bugs.  Any work you can do to narrow down
what's going on, even speculatively, can be handy once someone gets a
chance to look.

Bryce

> Best regards,
> 
> Diederik
> 
> 
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