I run darktable (from git) on Ubuntu 17.10 (vanilla GNOME shell) and have done for some weeks. On
my machine with AMD hardware I run the wayland session, and on my machines with nvidia hardware, I
run the xorg session. It certainly works under both, though its stability isn't necessarily perfect
(not sure if that's because I'm running the latest git version, or because I'm using a lot of masks,
of if it's ubuntu 17.10 so YMMV).
The way 17.10 works is that when you log in at the GDM greeter, there's a little cog button you can
click to choose which session to log in to. If you have Wayland-compatible hardware, you will see
two options for each installed session(xorg, and Wayland). If you don't (i.e. if you have nvidia
hardware) you just see one option for each installed session.
Regards,
Rob
On 21/10/17 08:41, Matt Eastwood (Matthias) wrote:
Thanks, Pascal! Yeah, after more reading, that's what I found as well. When I have a few hours to
spare, I will upgrade my desktop PC to 17.10 and do just that.
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On 10/20/2017 05:40 PM, Pascal Obry wrote:
Matt,
I've been doing some reading about Ubuntu 17.10 and the new Wayland
display server. It turns out that the NVidia drivers aren't yet
(very) compatible with that.
Do any of the NVidia owners among you already have Darktable running
on Ubuntu 17.10 under Wayland, and are you able to use OpenCL
acceleration?
If it doesn't work, I think I'll stick with Ubuntu 17.04 until NVidia
support for Wayland matures.
Why? You can use 17.10 with plain Xorg as done with 17.04. Those are
completely orthogonal problems. And wait for 17.10 to have proper
support for OpenCL on Wayland.
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