On 3/24/24 20:28 david allen wrote:
> I recently upgraded my OS to Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon. This OS has
> -experimental- support for Wayland that one activates before login.
> However, this blocked my administrative privileges. Tried another
> computer, same setup, same result.

Hmm, I wonder what you mean with "administrative privileges". One of the
"superior features" of Wayland is, for instance, that the user 'root'
can't (easily, if at all) run GUI programs ("security" reasons).
However, if you need root privileges you could either use `sudo` for a
single command or `sudo su` to "become" root in a terminal. I used older
versions of Linux Mint (19 and 20 IIRC) and this always worked well.

> I recognize this is not a fltk problem, I post this just in case
> someone  knows a work around.

You could try to install and run `weston` in your usual X11 environment.
This worked already in Mint 20. Weston opens a window that provides a
Wayland compositor (server) under the running X11 environment. You may
need some commandline switches (man weston) to set an appropriate window
size. This is how I tested FLTK with Wayland when I was still using
Linux Mint.

> Does Debian fully support Wayland?

Yep, as others said already. I'm using Debian 12 aka "Bookworm" for my
daily work including FLTK development under a Gnome/Wayland desktop
environment but you can also use KDE or maybe other DE's.

This mail was written using Thunderbird (in X11 mode), using XWayland
under Gnome/Wayland on Debian 12.