These ISOs are PRERELEASE. Using SVN Revision 6992,
Note that RELEASE here does not imply truly stable as many packages are bleeding edge. It's from a standpoint that the demos are working.
Use in production is not recommended
They currently contain:
Wayland Libraries:
* Wayland Master
* Weston Master
Wayland Toolkits and Applications:
* Wayland enabled Clutter
* Wayland enabled SDL
* Wayland enabled GTK
* Wayland enabled Qt
* Wayland enabled EFL/Elementary
* Wayland enabled FreeGLUT
* Wayland enabled GLFW
* Wayland enabled mpv
* Wayland enabled gstreamer
* KDE Frameworks Wayland programs
* Native Calligra Wayland programs
Wayland Desktops:
* Weston's Example Desktop
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Liri
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Gnome-shell
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* KDE Plasma
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Enlightenment
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Wayfire
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
* Sway
**(selectable at login, and as a nested session from the application menu)
Other Features:
* A graphical utility for configuring udev for weston multiseat/multi pointer
* A functional Wayland login manager written in Bash, that supports user switching and session selection, multiple seats, rotational session logs, and a wlprofile file.
* Mir
* waypipe for remote Wayland, and a script utility built around it, to make it easy to save and reuse connections. (Passwords are not saved)
New in these ISOs since 2020-05-20:
The kernel is built with simplekms patches cherrypicked in https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg262273.html . This allows modesetting on
a wider variety of hardware that didn't have it before, and reduces the need for falling back to using framebuffer devices.
For better graphical support (gfxmode=keep), the ISOs now boot with GRUB instead of ISOLINUX. These ISOs should still be bootable with isohybrid.
The ISO now only has TWO boot options (down from 12), instead of the confusing list of standard mode, software mode, framebuffer mode, and options to try to force a framebuffer size.
The only options now are standard mode, and forcing software rendering
An experimental feature called vTTYs replace the text mode VTs, they are replaced by a full screen instance of VTE running on Cage. The Kernel mode VTs still run if init=/bin/bash is passed, or cage fails to run.
These look nicer than the text mode TTYs, and don't bleed keyboard input from other seats.
Tier 1 packages now come from Debian Bullseye
Wine Wayland has been added, however to save ISO space, there is no multi-arch, so the bitness of the executables that Wine can run are dependent on the bitness of the ISO
Qt6 Wayland and small examples has been added
pipewire-pulse is the default
More firmware is installed by default, Debian packages the same files, but differently. It was attempted to best match the firmware packages that Ubuntu ISOs ship with
The "Wayland Demos" section has been cleaned up a bit, now that real applications run under Wayland for years, and the Wayland variables are correctly handled, it's not as needed to have all the duplication
ISO Building:
- /sys is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots
- /dev is no longer bind-mounted into the build chroots. Instead a small ram fs with stdio/stdin/stdout files, and pts and shm replaces it
- The build_core script runs the download processes as a non-root user. Now the non-root user is a member of a non-standard group.
It is not 'nogroup' anymore, but a different GID, that way it reduces the likelihood that git, if exploited by a repository server that has been
breached, less files will be readable to it.
More corrections to importing dbus things in /opt to work systemwide
Weston has been patched with a (submitted) patch that should make session activation more resilient on some hardware. This should prevent randomly blank login manager greeters.
The WaylandLoginManager:
- The greeter now starts on the more traditional TTY7 instead of TTY8.
- Fix handling of enforcing software rendering for user sessions when chosen
- Correctly gets XDG_SEAT and XDG_SESSION_ID variables within user sessions, when some Desktop Environments like gnome unset them.
- Correctly excludes greeters when counting active sessions in the shutdown prompts.
- Supports WKS backends, in addition to KMS, FB, WL.
Where WL sessions were nested sessions relying on Weston's fullscreen-shell
fullscreen-shell support is rare, as it needs support written for it. WKS
backend is nested sessions using Weston's Kiosk Shell, which does NOT need special support.
This allows desktops such as Enlightenment to run, when there is no mode setting.
The need for this is much rarer now, thank to the simplekms driver...
- Handles /tmp/.X11-unix correctly even in the per-session private tmps
- Dropped the wlmforcevblankoff option, this was never needed, and part of a failed attempt to light up DisplayLink2 devices.
A fix that ended up being fixed in the udl kernel driver itself
Usage:
There is no password for the Live Session User (rebestie), while auto login is enabled when starting as a live CD. The password is blank
If you choose to install, the live session user does not get added, and instead the login becomes the default username and password that is configured at the installation wizard
Problems:
Enlightenment in wizard mode sometimes doesn't show the cursor
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