Closed Bug 1190183 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Firefox does not find the display on Wayland

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 635134

People

(Reporter: eldmannen+mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150620063927

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to launch Firefox on Weston, the reference Wayland compositor.

$ ./firefox


Actual results:

Printed out the following in the terminal;
Error: no display specified


Expected results:

Should have started Firefox and shown the Firefox browser window on the screen.
Confirmed. Latest Archlinux and Firefox Nightly from 8-17. Running

GDK_BACKEND=wayland ./firefox 

results in 

Error: no display specified
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Was this report about finding the X11 display under Wayland, or about running directly under Wayland?

Direct Wayland support is a way off, but it should be possible to make firefox automatically use the X11 GDK_BACKEND, assuming the DISPLAY env var is set.
(In reply to Karl Tomlinson (ni?:karlt) from comment #3)
> Was this report about finding the X11 display under Wayland, or about
> running directly under Wayland?
> 
> Direct Wayland support is a way off, but it should be possible to make
> firefox automatically use the X11 GDK_BACKEND, assuming the DISPLAY env var
> is set.

This bug was about running directly under Wayland.
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