Hawaii is usable now

Giulio Camuffo giuliocamuffo at gmail.com
Sun Apr 14 14:00:07 PDT 2013


2013/4/14 Pier Luigi <pierluigi.fiorini at gmail.com>

> 2013/4/1  <darxus at chaosreigns.com>:
> > So are you actually using this as your primary UI now?  The reason I
> > stopped using weston as my primary UI in September was this segfault bug
> > which I hit maybe a few times a day, triggered by xwayland:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59983
> >
> > And I believe not using xwayland still pretty substantially limits the
> > applications you can use, particularly browsers.  Snowshoe (using Qt5)
> > might be a decent option?  Anybody know of any others more usable than
> > qtwebkit?
>
> Is anyone looking into this issue already?
>
> I'm still using X but the things I use most (QtCreator and a Web
> browser) already work on Wayland natively.
> Snowshoe is nice but Qupzilla seems much more complete and that's what
> I would like to use.
> Unfortunately I can't build it, seems that qtwebkit puts some
> undesired libraries into its pkg-config files and the linker refuses
> to continue during Qupzilla build.
>

I compiled Qupzilla, but it crashes whenever it tries to use a plugin. See
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-29981<https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-29981?focusedCommentId=198414#comment-198414>


> Other important applications are VMware and VirtualBox, those are
> applications that need XWayland but I will try and see if I hit this
> bug.
>
> > The only person I know of using weston as his primary UI is min2, who
> said
> > he's not using a graphical browser at all, due to this segfault bug.
> >
> >
> > If anybody is using wayland as their primary UI, I'd like to hear about
> it.
>
> As soon as I have a browser built I will use Weston + Hawaii most of the
> time.
> I'll let you know when that happens.
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