Bug#1143146: ardour: Force ardour to run in xwayland by passing FLTK_BACKEND=x11

Erich Eickmeyer <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 09:37:46 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.multimedia
Message-ID <cd159adb-f190-4bca-931b-9c49d6dc8c03__4111.69720334641$1785602367$gmane$org@ubuntu.com>
Control: -1 pending

Fixed in the git repository, awaiting an upload.

https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/ardour/-/commit/0d7ae529a6d7dc8a600e3e388c701df8c65e3490

Thanks.

On 7/30/26 15:46, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
> Package: ardour
> Version: 1:9.7.0+ds-1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
> Some plugins, such as yoshimi, will fail to run in ardour under Wayland.
> The only real workaround for this is to force ardour to run in Xwayland
> under a wayland session by passing FLTK_BACKEND=x11 in the Exec= line.
>
> The only side-effect this has is that the application will no longer scale
> with Wayland, but ardour does its own scaling anyhow so this shouldn't
> be a factor.