1665817 - [Flatpak] Enable native Wayland

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1870966

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, task)

Description

[TheEvilSkeleton]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Actual results:

When using Wayland, Firefox will open in an Xwayland window instead of a pure/native Wayland window. Other programs opened in an Xwayland window will still be able to see Firefox, thus still making it a security/privacy issue to Wayland users.

Expected results:

It should be opened in a native Wayland window.

I made a post about enabling native Wayland in Firefox Flatpak: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxCafe/duplicates/isdmmp/tip_use_firefox_flatpak_in_native_wayland_no/

Here's a merge request in the LibreWolf repository (fork of Firefox) about natively enabling Wayland: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/linux/-/merge_requests/11/diffs

Basically, the only lines you have to add are:

 	        "--socket=wayland",
	        "--env=MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1",

(remove the comma in the second line if it's the last line.)

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[TheEvilSkeleton]

I could create a merge request. I don't really mind

Comment 3

[ajtbecool]

Is there any progress on this? Seems like such an obvious change to make...

Comment 4

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Attachment: Bug 1665817 - Flatpak: Add Wayland support

Comment 5

[TheEvilSkeleton]

(In reply to ajtbecool from comment #3)

Is there any progress on this? Seems like such an obvious change to make...

Firefox is a FOSS project, so it relies on the community. If the change is obvious to you, then we would've appreciated it if you would submit a patch.

Comment 6

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

It seems like a bad idea to make this change in the firefox flatpak before it's done in the default build (hence the dependency on bug 1543600).

Comment 7

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Attachment: Bug 1665817 - Enable Wayland env in Flatpak

Comment 8

[TheEvilSkeleton]

(In reply to Julien Cristau [:jcristau] from comment #6)

It seems like a bad idea to make this change in the firefox flatpak before it's done in the default build (hence the dependency on bug 1543600).

Sure. I'll just keep it opened until a member decides to merge it.

Comment 9

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Attachment: Bug 1665817 - Enable Wayland in Flatpak

Comment 10

[pirminbraun16]

Probably, fallback-x11 instead of x11 for the socket option should be used then to not give unnecessary access to x11 on wayland capable systems?
For infos on option see:
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html#standard-permissions
and
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference.html#flatpak-override
under option socket for override command