[Lazarus] Lazarus and Wayland display manager

[John Landmesser]

Just trying lazarus on new distribution nobara ( Fedora clone ) with
wayland, but it seems that the IDE sometimes get in trouble with this
display manager wayland. Changed back to x11 that is much better.


Lazarus 3.99 (rev main_3_99-1123-gd2954c9818) FPC 3.2.2 x86_64-linux-gtk2


In Lazarus mailing list i found:


> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:52 AM Juha Manninen <juha.manninen62 at
> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The libXtst library dependency pulled in for Linux (and UNIX) was a
> > 100% increase of system dependencies for a Lazarus release, and for
> > absolutely no benefit.
> > Now Lazarus BigIde depends on just libgtk2.0-dev.
> >
>
> Ok, that was not accurate. Many other system libraries are pulled in
> by libgtk2.0-dev.
> However in a distro package system level it is the only requirement.
> Adding dependency for X brings another problem: Lazarus would not work
> with
> Wayland display server.
> Now it works if the widgetset supports Wayland. Major widgetsets like GTK3
> and QT5 do support it. Not sure about GTK2.
>
> Juha


Is that still true ... ?

Wayland in general has strange issues?!