Arch Linux

The XWayland patches that have been merged into the development branch of XOrg use a different approach to implementing XWayland than what was used, when mutter-wayland 3.12 was released.[1]
So even when you install the new XWayland DDX from AUR (xwayland-git) you can't start Gnome on Wayland, when using the open source drivers. Support for the new XWayland approach was merged shortly after
the Gnome 3.12 release. Would it be possible to change the mutter-wayland package to build mutter-wayland at this stage, so that people only have to install xwayland-git and start the "Gnome on Wayland" session via GDM?
I created a PKGBUILD, which builds the snapshot just after the support was added.[2] Since the mutter-wayland package isn't used for anything else it should not affect the stability of peoples desktops when they use the X11
Gnome session. This would give people an easy and safe way to check the state of Gnome on Wayland, since xwayland-git doesn't replace your X Server either. You can keepthe stable nouveau driver, stable xorg-server package installed.[3]

The more people can test it now the better Gnome 3.14 will work on Wayland.


[1] http://blog.mecheye.net/2014/04/xwayland/
[2] https://gist.github.com/blackout24/9e1e255962a007ae6482
[3] http://i.imgur.com/7XJkVnH.png