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#616 F34 Change: Xwayland as a standalone package
Closed by pbokoc. Opened by bcotton.

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This issue tracks the release note for the following Fedora Change:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XwaylandStandalone

If you own this change, please add additional information here that we should communicate to Fedora users. Specifically, please consider:

  • New features available because of this change - pick 2 or 3 that are important
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Metadata Update from @mareksu:
- Issue assigned to mareksu

Hi @ofourdan,

If you happen to have a moment before the Fedora 34 release, could you please review this last-minute Xwayland release note?

If you can't, don't worry about it.

Thanks!

== Xwayland is now distributed as a separate package
The Xwayland display server was previously distributed together with the X.org server. It is now distributed separately in the `Xwayland` package.
Xwayland is receiving significantly more upstream updates than X.org. The separate packaging enables Fedora to release the updated Xwayland and keep X.org at the current stable version.
The updates to Xwayland include:
* XRandR emulation for games
* Multiple window buffers
* `initfd` support
* Xwayland `pkgconfig` file

Hi @ofourdan,

If you happen to have a moment before the Fedora 34 release, could you please review this last-minute Xwayland release note?

If you can't, don't worry about it.

Thanks!

```
== Xwayland is now distributed as a separate package

The Xwayland display server was previously distributed together with the X.org server. It is now distributed separately in the Xwayland package.

Xwayland is receiving significantly more upstream updates than X.org. The separate packaging enables Fedora to release the updated Xwayland and keep X.org at the current stable version.

The updates to Xwayland include:

  • XRandR emulation for games
  • Multiple window buffers
  • initfd support
  • Xwayland pkgconfig file
    ```

Yep, that sounds right.

One thing though, the XRandR emulation was backported in the previous versions of Fedora, meaning that while this is technically correct that Xwayland standalone provides this new feature, this is not actually a new feature in Xwayland for Fedora users.

Also, for the wording (and some other additional features), we could take inspiration from Michel's announcement upstream:

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-March/003076.html

Thanks, @ofourdan. I've removed the point about XRandR emulation because it was misleading.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to properly edit the release note to match the upstream announcement, but at least I've linked the announcement at the end as an additional resource.

Fixed in #691.

Metadata Update from @pbokoc:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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