Wayland Status

A list of issues found while testing a Wayland session with 3.13.3:

• menu trouble:
  • Menus in gtk2 apps come up, but no items can be activated. (seen in xchat ,context menus in firefox seem to work)
  • Other popups, such as the firefox completions have the same problem.
• text editing woes
  • I see frequent cursor changes and unintended selection while editing in firefox
• pointer problems
  • still no acceleration
  • very finicky touchpad (missing disable-while-typing)
• window resizing
  • doesn't work with gtk3-widget-factory running natively
  • works with gnome-terminal running under xwayland
  • I often get a stuck resize cursor until moving back into the window
• window positioning
  • attached modals are not placed right when running natively: lack of modal hint in xdg-shell protocol
  • works fine under xwayland
• screen locking
  • leads to totally unusable system (dpms off ?)
• control-center
  • segfaults when run natively under GDK_BACKEND=wayland (it needs CLUTTER_BACKEND set too)
  • display panel doesn't work (focus issues with popups)
  • mouse panel: no touchpad settings
• a11y
  • zoom: pointer not showing up reliably
  • visual bell: always flashes the entire screen