[SailfishDevel] Linux desktop software on Sailfish?

Thu Mar 1 22:29:52 UTC 2018

On 3/1/2018 11:26 PM, szopin at gmail.com wrote:
> There's xwayland, but only 'working' option (touch/sound) is buggy chroot of arch or ubuntu:
> http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=98882
> (managed to get it working on tablet with sound only during sfos notifications but would crash/reboot rather soon after initiating, not really usable, maybe with gemini more ppl look into it)

 From a quick check, it seems that e.g. gtk supports Wayland. Also, 
Ubuntu 17 uses Wayland by default.

So I would guess that X compatibility is not a must nowadays and 
probably not the way to go.

Regards,

Dietmar