Bug#923791: marked as done (synaptic and most screen recording apps don't work on Wayland)
> I committed a first version:
> https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/commit/5496e24
Tentative patch attached.
> <section id="apps-in-gnome-on-wayland">
> <title>Some applications don't work in GNOME on Wayland</title>
> <para>
> In contrast to Debian releases before buster, <literal>Wayland</literal> is
> now the default display manager that is used by
This sounds as if we're drawing a contrast between Wayland and Stretch.
"Display manager" is things like gdm and xdm; Xorg's a display *server*.
(Should we in fact be talking about this as "Wayland vs Xorg" or is it
"Wayland vs the X Window System"? "Xorg" is just the metapackage to
install the X.Org implementation of an X11 server... but then again if
GNOME calls the option "Xorg" we presumably need to follow their lead,
even if $XDG_SESSION_TYPE does classify it as "X11".)
> <literal>GNOME</literal>. <literal>GNOME</literal> used to default to
> <literal>Xorg</literal> in the past. Some applications, including the
We don't usually put <literal> tags around things that are "upstream
software brand names" (and if we did we'd presumably want to do it in
the title line too).
We could boil all this down to
GNOME in buster has changed its default display server from Xorg to Wayland.
> popular package manager <systemitem role="package">synaptic</systemitem>
Is gparted also a problem case that's worth mentioning?
> and most screen recording applications, have not been updated to work
> properly under <literal>Wayland</literal>. In order to use these packages,
> one needs to login with <literal>GNOME on Xorg</literal>.
The verb is two words, "log in". Maybe this should be "log in with a
<literal>GNOME on Xorg</literal> session"?
(Unless the option in fact says "Gnome on Xorg", as some docs claim?
I can't find any similar string in the sources...)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index a21c4949..8f572579 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -471,14 +471,12 @@ $ sudo update-initramfs -u
<section id="apps-in-gnome-on-wayland">
<title>Some applications don't work in GNOME on Wayland</title>
<para>
- In contrast to Debian releases before buster, <literal>Wayland</literal> is
- now the default display manager that is used by
- <literal>GNOME</literal>. <literal>GNOME</literal> used to default to
- <literal>Xorg</literal> in the past. Some applications, including the
+ GNOME in buster has changed its default display server from Xorg to
+ Wayland. Some applications, including the
popular package manager <systemitem role="package">synaptic</systemitem>
and most screen recording applications, have not been updated to work
- properly under <literal>Wayland</literal>. In order to use these packages,
- one needs to login with <literal>GNOME on Xorg</literal>.
+ properly under Wayland. In order to use these packages,
+ one needs to log in with a <literal>GNOME on Xorg</literal> session.
</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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