Fedora Workstation WG minutes, 2021-06-22
by Chris Murphy
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#fedora-meeting-2: Workstation WG (2021-06-22)
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Meeting started by cmurf at 01:53:26 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2021-06-23/workstation...
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Meeting summary
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* Rollcall (cmurf, 01:54:35)
* present: Langdon (secr.), Allan, Neal, Chris, Tomas, Jens, Michael,
Kalev (cmurf, 01:54:37)
* regrets: (cmurf, 01:54:39)
* present guests: (cmurf, 01:54:41)
* Approval of June 15 minutes (cmurf, 01:54:43)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/workstation/workstation.2021-06-1...
(cmurf, 01:54:45)
* AGREED: no objections (cmurf, 01:54:47)
* Announcements, follow-ups, status reports (cmurf, 01:54:49)
* LINK: https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/14 (cmurf, 01:55:01)
* Local active admin users can install, but not remove, software without
a password (cmurf, 01:55:03)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/233 (cmurf,
01:55:05)
* AGREED: working group is in favor of the ticket (cmurf, 01:55:11)
* Open Floor (cmurf, 01:55:13)
* KDE Akademy schedule (cmurf, 01:55:17)
* LINK: https://akademy.kde.org/2021/program (cmurf, 01:55:19)
Meeting ended at 01:55:47 UTC.
Action Items
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Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* cmurf (27)
* zodbot (7)
* Neal (0)
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2 years, 9 months
Xwayland support in Fedora with the NVIDIA 470 series driver
by Olivier Fourdan
Hi all!
NVIDIA has released today a public BETA test of their proprietary driver
which supports hardware acceleration with Xwayland.
For this to work, it requires changes and fixes in Xwayland which are already
part of the current builds shipped with Fedora 34 (currently in testing is
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.1-3.fc34).
Please help us test this support for hardware acceleration with the NVIDIA
proprietary driver in Xwayland, and report issues for Xwayland in Fedora
bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora) against
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland.
By default, the display manager (GDM) will automatically disable Wayland
when the NVIDIA driver is loaded. To enable Wayland with NVIDIA's proprietary
driver, you'll need comment out that line in the file
“/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules”:
# disable Wayland when using the proprietary nvidia driver
# DRIVER=="nvidia", RUN+="/usr/libexec/gdm-runtime-config set daemon
WaylandEnable false"
And restart your system.
This is beta version of the driver, so issues are to be expected and reported:
* To the NVIDIA forums for specific NVIDIA driver issues
* To Fedora bugzilla for the rest.
There is a number of currently known issues:
* A blank window with Chromium based web browsers (including GOOGLE Chrome)
This is an issue with Chromium's GPU sandboxing, a workaround is to
disable GPU rendering with “--disable-gpu”
* Applications such as Blender or Steam sometimes show a black window
This is an issue with the driver which should be addressed later.
* EGL on Xwayland does not work with NVIDIA proprietary driver
This is a known limitation in the driver which should be addressed later.
* vulkan application such as “vulkaninfo” crashes
* GTK3 applications running on Xwayland (GDK_BACKEND=x11 …) fail
This is an issue with the driver which falsely claims support for
the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension, should be addressed later.
* GTK4 application show nothing on Wayland with NVIDIA proprietary driver
This is a known issue with GTK4 reported upstream here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3772
* Firefox Webrender fails to render on Wayland native with NVIDIA driver
Webrender with hardware acceleration uses EGL and fails to render on
Wayland with the NVIDIA proprietary driver because of an ambiguity in the
EGL specification causing a difference between Mesa and NVIDIA
implementations and Firefox Webrender relies on Mesa's implementation.
The latest Firefox update for Fedora disables hardware rendering with
NVIDIA proprietary driver to work around the issue.
* Fullscreen GLX applications do not render in KDE with Xwayland
This is an issue with KDE's Wayland compositor.
* Shaped windows on Xwayland are upside-down in GNOME Shell
This is an issue with mutter reported here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1792
Thank you!
Olivier
2 years, 9 months
Fedora Workstation WG minutes, 2021-06-15
by Chris Murphy
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#fedora-meeting-2: Workstation WG (2021-06-15)
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Meeting started by cmurf at 15:35:31 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2021-06-18/workstation...
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Meeting summary
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* Rollcall (cmurf, 15:35:49)
* present: Owen, Michael (secr.), Allan, Jens, Matthias, Chris,
Langdon, Neal ,Tomas (cmurf, 15:35:51)
* regrets: Kalev (cmurf, 15:35:53)
* present guests: (cmurf, 15:35:55)
* Approval of June 8 minutes (cmurf, 15:35:57)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/workstation/workstation.2021-06-1...
(cmurf, 15:35:59)
* AGREED: no objections (cmurf, 15:36:01)
* Announcements, follow-ups, status reports (cmurf, 15:36:03)
* encryption of user data (excludes system) (cmurf, 15:36:07)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/82 (cmurf,
15:36:09)
* systemd-homed makes it easier to support no encryption, and multiple
encryption schemes (ext4/fscrypt, btrfs/fscrypt, LUKS); (cmurf,
15:36:41)
* but homed is a fundamentally different login/user authentication
scheme, so we need to evaluate that independently from encryption
schemes. (cmurf, 15:36:43)
* ACTION: Neal to create a ticket for considering btrfs subvolumes for
different users. (cmurf, 15:36:45)
* ACTION: Matthias to invite Lennart to future WG meeting to discuss
systemd-homed. (cmurf, 15:36:47)
* LINK: https://github.com/google/fscrypt (cmurf, 15:36:57)
* Open Floor (cmurf, 15:36:59)
Meeting ended at 15:37:26 UTC.
Action Items
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* Neal to create a ticket for considering btrfs subvolumes for different
users.
* Matthias to invite Lennart to future WG meeting to discuss
systemd-homed.
Action Items, by person
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* Neal
* Neal to create a ticket for considering btrfs subvolumes for
different users.
* **UNASSIGNED**
* Matthias to invite Lennart to future WG meeting to discuss
systemd-homed.
People Present (lines said)
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* cmurf (41)
* zodbot (7)
* Neal (0)
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2 years, 9 months
Systemd-boot as optional bootloader for Workstation?
by Luya Tshimbalanga
Hello team,
Fedora Design lab maintainer here. I recently replaced GRUB2 by systemd-boot following this [instruction](https://kowalski7cc.xyz/blog/systemd-boot-fedora-32).
I had to remove shim after backing up otherwise secure boot prevent systemd-boot to execute.
The experience is completely refreshing seen the boot screen instead of the bootloader (activated by holding escape button on a start-up). It will be much better with secure boot available for.
Will it be time to use it on Workstation as alternate bootloader for device running on EFI? The ideal will be fore Fedora 35 but Fedora 36 may be the fallback.
Luya
2 years, 9 months