I just found this Ubuntu announcement from January. 17.10 had picked up wayland. But 18.04 dropped back to X.org due to stability and app compatibility issues: https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-1804-will-revert-to-long-in-the-tooth-xorg
On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 4:01 PM Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/5/19, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 04:01:50PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:56:49PM -0000, Curt wrote: > >> > My understanding is the problem lies in the Gnome/Wayland combo (which > >> > is the default combo starting with Buster). > >> > >> The problem there, IMHO, is Wayland being the default desktop choice. > > > > ... on amd64/i386 only. Whenever Wayland is the problem or the solution, > > punishing all other supported architectures seems extreme. > > That's what I don't understand. Why remove the package if it's only a > problem with some desktops? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland > Unsupported Desktop environments: > Cinnamon: discussed > MATE: planned, source (2014) > XFCE: planned > > Can't [whatever installs the software] notice that Gnome is > installed/selected & not install synaptic? Or patch synaptic to > realize it's running under Gnome & spit out an error message and quit? > > Everybody pays the price because it doesn't work with Gnome seems a bit > much. > > Lee > >
