On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 10:36 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
Hi,
I was going through most frequent crashers in Fedora 25 and vino is
in
TOP10. When I looked at it I realized it crashed on Wayland because
for
screen sharing you need X. [1]
It's a bit unfortunate that we have vino, which by default doesn't
work, in the default installation and its functionality is exposed in
Control Center. I wonder if it'd make a sense to patch the sharing
module in the control center to check if the session is running on
Wayland and if so, to disable the dialog.
My understanding is that screen sharing is moving to the compositor
or
Pinos [2] and vino will be deprecated, but in the meantime we
shouldn't
expose its functionality on Wayland.
Thanks for bringing that up.
Yes, Jonas has in the past worked on prototyping screensharing in the
compositor, using pinos. We will have to complete this work and land
it. In the meantime, vino should of course not crash, but exit cleanly
if X is not available.