When putting emphasis on a stable system, staying with Xorg is probably a good idea for the time being. While I use Xwayland daily now, it definitely comes with a number of quirks.
- Transparency comes and goes. For example, moving a window to near the top of the screen makes the top menu bar intransparent. - Sometimes shadows flicker around, which probably want to be window frame shadows, but get misplaced. - Copy & Paste by left/middle mouse button sometimes works, sometimes not. Be prepared to use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V more often and/or to check every pasted text. - gnome-shell collects a lot more memory. Currently at ~500 MB after two days of usage. - Commodities like 'sudo synaptic' no longer work, it needs 'xhost +local:; sudo synaptic'. sudo somehow doesn't forward screen settings. Ignoring such quirks, it runs at least stable. No crashes so far. And screen drawing happens faster. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727356 Title: Login screen never appears on early generation Intel GPUs (Core2 and Atom etc) Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in mutter source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in mutter source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Bug description: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/127 --- Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on older Intel GPUs. --- Workaround: Ctrl+Alt+F4, log in, edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and uncomment the line: #WaylandEnable=false --- $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 Upgraded from 17.04 today. Steps to reproduce: - Start the PC or log out/end session in case it's running with an Xorg desktop already. - Attempt to log in, using 'Ubuntu' Expected to happen: Desktop appears. Actually happening: 5 seconds of black screen, then the login screen appears again. Partial diagnosis: - Logging in using 'Ubuntu on Xorg' works fine and as expected. - Extracted a syslog of such a failed attempt, see attached file. --- ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DisplayManager: gdm3DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-04 (539 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Tags: artful package-from-proposed third-party-packages Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-25 (0 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo www-data _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1727356/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
