On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 13:48 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 14:48 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu>
wrote:
> > > Neal Becker wrote:
> > >
> > > > I see that F25 will run wayland by default instead of Xorg.
> > >
> > > That applies to fedora workstation (only).
> > >
> > > > Will kde run on wayland?
> > >
> > > plasma has initial support for wayland, but I would personally
characterize
> > > it as fairly preliminary and alpha/tech-preview quality so far.
> >
> > With the current progress, it might be pretty much usable with 5.8. It
> > has some performance issues, I had one crash so far (but that's
> > actually not bad at all!) and one big feature missing is keyboard
> > layout switching. Otherwise when I use it, I sometimes forget I'm on
> > Wayland. Of course there are still some rough edges regarding Wayland,
> > we will see if Workstation will switch for real in F25 or both
> > Workstation and Plasma will switch together in F26.
>
> Seeing that F25 did switch to Wayland for the Workstation spin, is
> there any more news regarding KDE? If so, how does one switch to
> Wayland (there seems to be a complete lack of easy to find
> documentation).
Install plasma-workspace-wayland and then select Plasma (Wayland)
session in your login manager.
I'd say I was too optimistic, 5.8 is not yet there. But as always -
more folks trying it, more bugs, better feedback...
Thanks. I tried it but it's not ready for prime time. It starts up and
seems to restore my session, but is very laggy. Plasma is
consuming around 70% of my CPU (an i7 with 16GB). It also dies when
logging out (i.e. I get a blank screen and have to reset the box).
Back to X for now.
poc