LibreOffice Ported To Run On Wayland

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @03:00AM 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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Re:What's the point? by jedidiah · 2015-07-21 03:46 · Score: -1, Redundant

> The majority of Linux users don't use or need the remote features of X. They want a responsive and consistent GUI.
Both of your implications there are false.
HELL, while you idiots were sleeping the entire rest of the world (minus Apple) warmed up to the idea of remote desktop technology. If you are bound and determined to gut that, then you are giving Linux a competitive disadvantage and setting it back 20 years.

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