[SailfishDevel] Linux desktop software on Sailfish?

[szopin at gmail.com]

Depends on what app you want to run, some will probably never move to wayland and xwayland will be the only option to run them. More active/newer apps will probably at some point compile without any X lib dependencies, but it will take a while (at least mir is dead)

On Thursday, 1 March 2018, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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