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alacritty>=0.12.0 does not work with Wayland

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From: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb <at> leibniz-psychology.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: alacritty>=0.12.0 does not work with Wayland
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 09:18:01 +0200

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Hi Efraim,

since the upgrade from alacritty 0.9 to 0.12 it does not work any more
with the DISPLAY environment variable unset (i.e. without xwayland). The
error message is:

thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoWaylandLib X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed', /tmp/guix-build-alacritty-0.12.0.drv-0/source/guix-vendor/rust-winit-0.28.3.tar.gz/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:757:9

Could you have a look?

Thanks,
Lars

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb <at> leibniz-psychology.org>
Cc: 63514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63514: alacritty>=0.12.0 does not work with Wayland
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 12:02:29 +0300

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On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 09:18:01AM +0200, Lars-Dominik Braun wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
> 
> since the upgrade from alacritty 0.9 to 0.12 it does not work any more
> with the DISPLAY environment variable unset (i.e. without xwayland). The
> error message is:
> 
> thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoWaylandLib X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed', /tmp/guix-build-alacritty-0.12.0.drv-0/source/guix-vendor/rust-winit-0.28.3.tar.gz/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:757:9
> 
> Could you have a look?

That's certainly annoying. I'll take a look and see if I can find a good
way to fix that.

easy reproducer: 'DISPLAY="" alacritty' gives the same error.

Do you know if the X11 error is also a problem?

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From: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb <at> leibniz-psychology.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>, 63514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63514: alacritty>=0.12.0 does not work with Wayland
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 11:07:50 +0200

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Hi,

> easy reproducer: 'DISPLAY="" alacritty' gives the same error.

that’s exactly what I used under Wayland, otherwise it’ll fall back
to XWayland with ugly font rendering (because of my hidpi monitor).

> Do you know if the X11 error is also a problem?

Not sure what you mean. As I wrote it works with XWayland, so I’m
guessing X11 is not broken.

Thank you,
Lars

PS: What *is* entirely broken is swaylock, which also got updated
recently:

wl_registry <at> 2: error 0: invalid version for global wl_output (39): have 3, wanted 4

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb <at> leibniz-psychology.org>
Cc: 63514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63514: alacritty>=0.12.0 does not work with Wayland
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 12:11:11 +0300

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On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 11:07:50AM +0200, Lars-Dominik Braun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > easy reproducer: 'DISPLAY="" alacritty' gives the same error.
> 
> that’s exactly what I used under Wayland, otherwise it’ll fall back
> to XWayland with ugly font rendering (because of my hidpi monitor).
> 
> > Do you know if the X11 error is also a problem?
> 
> Not sure what you mean. As I wrote it works with XWayland, so I’m
> guessing X11 is not broken.

I parsed the error like this:

(ins)efraim <at> 3900XT ~$ DISPLAY="" alacritty
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoWaylandLib X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed', /tmp/guix-build-alacritty-0.12.0.drv-0/source/guix-vendor/rust-winit-0.28.3.tar.gz/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:757:9
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace


(ins)efraim <at> 3900XT ~$ DISPLAY="" alacritty
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoWaylandLib
(no wayland library found!)

X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed', /tmp/guix-build-alacritty-0.12.0.drv-0/source/guix-vendor/rust-winit-0.28.3.tar.gz/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:757:9
(something something XOpenDislay failed! with that source location)

note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

> Thank you,
> Lars
> 

One bug per bug report :)

> PS: What *is* entirely broken is swaylock, which also got updated
> recently:
> 
> wl_registry <at> 2: error 0: invalid version for global wl_output (39): have 3, wanted 4
> 



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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb <at> leibniz-psychology.org>
Cc: 63514-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63514: alacritty>=0.12.0 does not work with Wayland
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 13:09:01 +0300

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On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 09:18:01AM +0200, Lars-Dominik Braun wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
> 
> since the upgrade from alacritty 0.9 to 0.12 it does not work any more
> with the DISPLAY environment variable unset (i.e. without xwayland). The
> error message is:
> 
> thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoWaylandLib X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed', /tmp/guix-build-alacritty-0.12.0.drv-0/source/guix-vendor/rust-winit-0.28.3.tar.gz/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:757:9
> 
> Could you have a look?

This should now be fixed, feel free to re-open if its still not working
for you.

(ins)efraim <at> 3900XT ~/workspace/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix shell alacritty
(ins)efraim <at> 3900XT ~/workspace/guix [env]$ DISPLAY="" alacritty
warning: queue 0x7f40b0000cc0 destroyed while proxies still attached:
  zwp_primary_selection_offer_v1 <at> 4278190081 still attached
  wl_data_offer <at> 4278190080 still attached
  zwp_primary_selection_device_v1 <at> 29 still attached
  zwp_primary_selection_device_manager_v1 <at> 21 still attached
  wl_data_device <at> 28 still attached
  wl_seat <at> 27 still attached
  wl_data_device_manager <at> 25 still attached
  wl_registry <at> 20 still attached
warning: queue 0x55d2489cbe70 destroyed while proxies still attached:
  wl_shm_pool <at> 40 still attached
  xdg_wm_base <at> 32 still attached
  wl_output <at> 15 still attached
  wl_output <at> 14 still attached
  wl_seat <at> 13 still attached
  xdg_activation_v1 <at> 12 still attached
  wp_viewporter <at> 11 still attached
  zwp_text_input_manager_v3 <at> 10 still attached
  zwp_pointer_constraints_v1 <at> 9 still attached
  zwp_relative_pointer_manager_v1 <at> 8 still attached
  zxdg_decoration_manager_v1 <at> 7 still attached
  wl_subcompositor <at> 6 still attached
  wl_compositor <at> 5 still attached
  wl_shm <at> 4 still attached
  wl_registry <at> 2 still attached
warning: queue 0x55d2489fbe80 destroyed while proxies still attached:
  wl_callback <at> 45 still attached


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