FS#73252 - telegram-desktop latest (3.4.3) refuses to start under Wayland

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Pato05 (pato05) - Tuesday, 04 January 2022, 12:47 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Tuesday, 04 January 2022, 18:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The telegram-desktop client refuses to start natively under Wayland, even with the QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland environment flag set.
Running GNOME 41.2 under Wayland.

Additional info:
* package version(s): 3.4.3
* config and/or log files etc.: there is no particular log entry suggesting the program has ignored the flag for any reason.
* link to upstream bug report, if any

Steps to reproduce:
Start telegram-desktop with the QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland flag.
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Tuesday, 04 January 2022, 18:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Intentional behavior
Comment by q rty (q234rty) - Tuesday, 04 January 2022, 16:17 GMT
Seems to be intentionally disabled upstream: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/102c0a96ed5cbc1288e1654b7e12811f1ea378b5
Comment by q rty (q234rty) - Tuesday, 04 January 2022, 16:20 GMT
For native wayland on qt with GNOME on arch, personally I think the main blocker is https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87303.

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