Rob Bradford provided a patch to make gtk built with both wayland and
x11 backends usable:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672358#c8 (by disabling the
wayland clipboard when both are built).

When GTK+ 3.4 is released next week it will be merged into Ubuntu
Precise.  But it appears to have been decided that this patch will not
be included until GTK+ 3.4.1, and Ubuntu won't cherry pick it because
the wayland backend isn't being enabled anyway (because of the remaining
Nvidia propreitary problem and the fact that it's way past feature
freeze).

#ubuntu-desktop on irc.freenode.net appears to be where ubuntu gtk+
decisions are made.


A phoronix comment explained that the part of the Nvidia problem is "...nVidia 
builds their drivers with position dependant code, which is slightly faster but 
can not be shared between different programs (so it gets duplicated for each 
program running that uses GTK+)" - 
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?69536-Whoops-There-s-A-Big-Problem-For-Wayland-GTK&p=254956#post254956


** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #672358
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672358

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