Things that killed my motivation to play with wayland

Tiago Vignatti tiago.vignatti at linux.intel.com
Wed Jun 12 11:45:07 PDT 2013


Hi,

On 06/12/2013 04:40 AM, sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net wrote:
> On 12/06/2013 02:49, darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
>
>> 2) The XWayland segfault bug:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59983
>> This was the reason I stopped using weston as my primary UI at home in
>> September.  Tiago said he had a fix for it in one of his branches a long
>> time ago, but I guess it wasn't compatible with the changes made to the
>> plan to handle xwm.  Blows my mind that this isn't the top priority of
>> the
>> project.  I'm sure there's fine reasons.  It would be nice to know what
>> they are.
>
> I just rebased the full xwayland branch to xorg-server master, and also
> the intel and wlshm DDX.
>
> http://git.sardemff7.net/wayland/xorg-server/log/?h=xwayland-1.15
> http://git.sardemff7.net/wayland/xf86-video-intel/log/?h=xwayland
> http://git.sardemff7.net/wayland/xf86-video-wlshm/
>
> If Tiago can point me to the fix commit, I can include it in there, so
> we can start using a new base to hack on.

I just sent the fix to the mailing list. I don't consider that patch 
enough though cause it exposes now another bug in XWayland infrastructure.

Tiago



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