On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 04/02/2016 12:20 AM, drago01 wrote:
>
> Its not broken with Firefox or LibreOffice ... it can by design not work
> remotely. This issue has been fixed in xserver git by transparently
> fallback
> to DRI2 in that case ->
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93261
>
> Also XWayland only supports DRI3; and DRI3 on X is a requirement for
> Vulkan.
> It also helps compositors like mutter to avoid tearing and improves
> performance.
> So if there are issues with WebKit they should be fixed. "It can't
> work lets go back to DRI2" isn't really an option in the long run
Does this mean that eventually X applications over ssh will stop working?
You say it's currently fixed by falling back to DRI2, but then you say that
DRI2 is going away or at least won't be supported.
DRI2 will stay around. It just wont be the default choice for the above reasons.