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 <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

Am 22.12.20 um 01:07 schrieb jman:
> In order to make Libreoffice work, the package `xwayland` should be installed as a dependency.
It doesn't scale to add a xwayland dependency on every package doing X
operations.

> Unless I'm wrong, I believe the real issue is that Libreoffice does not work on a pure Wayland
> installation, but this fact is not very clear to the user.

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?

rene@frodo:~$ grep-dctrl -FRecommends xwayland
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
-sPackage
Package: mir-demos
Package: mir-test-tools
rene@frodo:~$ grep-dctrl -FDepends xwayland
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
-sPackage
Package: gnome-session-bin
Package: kwin-wayland
rene@frodo:~$

Ah, both GNOME and KDE depend on xwayland. Which DE/WM do you use?

>  I've tried searching for related issue on
> the Libreoffice buttracker but found none.

There is https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121275 but
that one's closed and didn't (apparently) even get a console output.

And the fix was using gtk3, which you did...


(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?=

Regards,


Rene