Bug#977857: libreoffice-common: On Wayland, it doesn't work without the xwayland pkg but installation does not pull xwayland as a dependency
Rene Engelhard writes:
Is this common? I mean this would haven been reported far earlier/in
many more cases? Isn't the "GNOME" Session defaulting to wayland
nowadays?
Ah, both GNOME and KDE depend on xwayland. Which DE/WM do you use?
I use Sway on Wayland and during the installation of bullseye I didn't
install neither Gnome/KDE, therefore xwayland was not pulled as a
dependency by any package.
I'm experimenting how far can I go with a pure Wayland without the
"translation" layer provided by xwayland, so I guess I've stomped on a
corner-case nobody has tested yet.
I understand this might be a niche use-case for now (Gnome/KDE rely on
xwayland) so I guess it's fine if you WONTFIX this issue. But I also
think that Wayland-with-no-xwayland might be the way to the future
(with a bumpy road to get there ...) and at some point Xorg and its
dependencies will be dropped.
(Wrt your other mail, that package list is so obviously incomplete -
and
we TTBOMK don't patch any place which should affect this. What we do
differ in is using system-libraries where possible - so one of these
might affect this?
You're right and that's puzzling. I've installed on purpose only the
vanilla Libreoffice packages I needed and it works without xwayland. I
have no idea why, I don't have enough context to go deeper on this.
Anyway, thank you for clarifying a few points and for maintaining the
Debian package!
regards,
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