Bug 806452 – gui-libs/wlroots should depend on x11-base/xwayland or x11-base/xorg-server

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Anton Kossler 2021-08-05 04:58:10 UTC]

There is a bug in X11 that causes absolute axis device inputs to be read as relative. Xwayland works around this issue, and can be used as the X server for wlroots.

[Comment 1 Amel Hodzic 2021-08-11 17:39:48 UTC]

Currently, the xwayland ebuild is only relevant for VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia".  This does not work with amdgpu, for example.

[Comment 2 Anton Kossler 2021-08-11 17:50:05 UTC]

(In reply to Amel Hodzic from comment #1)
> Currently, the xwayland ebuild is only relevant for VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia". 
> This does not work with amdgpu, for example.

I don't see that in the ebuild file, and it works wonderfully on my amdgpu. The only line related to nvidia is an extra dependancy on egl-wayland if you do have one.

[Comment 3 Matt Turner 2021-08-19 18:47:46 UTC]

wlroots does depend on x11-base/xwayland (or x11-base/xorg-server[wayland]).

What is the problem?

[Comment 4 Anton Kossler 2021-08-19 19:54:34 UTC]

Created attachment 734320 [details, diff]
Add xwayland as an option for satisfying the X server dependancy

(In reply to Matt Turner from comment #3)
> wlroots does depend on x11-base/xwayland (or x11-base/xorg-server[wayland]).
> 
> What is the problem?

After I removed xorg-server and installed xwayland, rebuilding wlroots tried to pull xorg-server back in. I had to apply the attached patch to make it build.

Neither of the newer ebuilds (0.14.0, 9999) have x11-base/xwayland anywhere in DEPEND either.

[Comment 5 Matt Turner 2021-08-19 20:13:49 UTC]

Ah, this would have been because we forgot to stabilize the revbump of wlroots in bug 806324.

That's now fixed.