1190183 - Firefox does not find the display on Wayland

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 635134

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Eldmannen]

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.

Comment 1

[wesu]

Confirmed. Latest Archlinux and Firefox Nightly from 8-17. Running

GDK_BACKEND=wayland ./firefox 

results in 

Error: no display specified

Comment 3

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

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.

Comment 4

[eldmannen]

(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.