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LibreOffice Ported To Run On Wayland

Posted by timothy on from the onwards-and-up-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes: LibreOffice has lost its X11 dependency on Linux and can now run smoothly under Wayland. LibreOffice has been ported to Wayland by adding GTK3 tool-kit support to the office suite over the past few months. LibreOffice on Wayland is now in good enough shape that the tracker bug has been closed and it should work as well as X11 except for a few remaining bugs. LibreOffice 5.0 will be released next month with this support and other changes outlined by the 5.0 release notes.

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  1. Re:What's the point? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Wayland is more newer hence more better. X11 used to have things in it that are not relevant so we should dump it.

  2. Re:Wrong Person by jedidiah · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't that supposed to be what sophisticated code reuse concepts from CIS 101 are supposed to be for?

    Only the X developers should be whining about the burdens of coding X.

    --
    A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
  3. Re:When the fuck will I be able to use Wayland? by FranTaylor · · Score: 2, Funny

    When the fuck will Wayland be usable on my system?

    when you find someone competent to install it for you