Wayland GTK Patched

Default behavior of Ubuntu Quantal's primary interface is to try to sell things: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1065720

New PPA for Quantal: https://launchpad.net/~darxus/+archive/wayland-gtk-quantal

GTK with Wayland backend enabled, without cairo-gl dependency, for bug 954352.

You need to "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" or applications will segfault when run with Wayland (bug 984914). If running under Unity you also need to rename /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so (bug 994091) and "apt-get remove libcanberra-gtk3-module" (bug 996917). These problems only apply to running GTK+ applications as native Wayland clients, and do not affect running them normally as X clients.

To use:

echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" >> ~/.bashrc
sudo apt-get install weston ppa-purge
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:darxus/wayland-gtk
# This should only upgrade the gtk packages, including gir and gail:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Reboot (not actually necessary).

In one gnome-terminal, run:

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp # Put in ~/.bashrc?
weston

In another gnome-terminal, run:

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp
export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
gnome-calculator &
gnome-terminal &
gedit &
baobab &
file-roller &
charmap &
gnome-sudoku &
gwibber &
transmission-gtk &
brasero &
gnome-sound-recorder &
rhythmbox &
gnome-system-monitor &

To revert all changes:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:darxus/wayland-gtk

I had a problem with ppa-purge not working (bug 995113), needed to uncomment the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/darxus-wayland-gtk-precise.list then it worked fine.

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Running weston outside of X:

To fix permissions problems:

sudo chown root /usr/bin/weston
sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/weston

Which will cause you other permissions problems, requiring you to do this after each time you start weston:

sudo chmod ugo+rw /tmp/wayland*

These problems are fixed by using weston-launcher in weston master (the upcoming release).

For some gnome applications, you'll want to run weston as:

dbus-launch /usr/bin/weston

Then run your applications from weston-terminal. You might also want to run gnome-terminal as "gnome-terminal --disable-factory".

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This package was built from Ubuntu Precise GTK+3.0 + these patches from GTK master: http://www.chaosreigns.com/wayland/dl/gtkpatches/

1 to default to X11 before Wayland output: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674102

7 to remove the dependency on cairo-gl: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672361

Other than those 8 patches the only difference is adding --enable-wayland-backend and --enable-x11-backend to DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS in debian/rules, and adding build dependencies on libwayland-dev and libxkbcommon-dev.

To build these packages I did:

sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev
apt-get source gtk+3.0
sudo apt-get build-dep gtk+3.0
cd gtk+3.0
# modify debian/rules, add 8 patches to debian/patches
# in debian/control, add dependencies on libwayland-dev, libxkbcommon-dev
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b

Looks like you need to build it once, "cp -a debian/libgtk-3-0/DEBIAN/symbols debian/libgtk-3-0.symbols", then build it again.