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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: 5, Informative

    But something is better than nothing. Currently wayland is only offering the latter.

    Your comment is two years out of date, Wayland has offered remote protocol since 2013 in the main branch, further its expected to be better supported than X11 (ie perfect alpha blending on shading at 60fps over a network link) all while using less resources than X11 and without degrading features.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:What's the point? by morgauxo · · Score: 4, Informative

    As an actual user, not just a developer talking about protocols try actually setting that up and using it. Supposedly that code is in the main branch but there is ZERO documentation about how to make it work. From what I have heard one of the developers wrote it in order to try to shut up all the people who were rightly complaining that a major feature from X was being taken away. Once he had a single demo it then went by the wayside. Does that code even work any more? Who knows, how would one even find out?

    As far as I can tell remote Wayland was developed only far enough to be a publicity stunt and doesn't really exist in a usable state.