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No context menu on wallpaper in Wayland

Open danirabbit opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

What Happened?

I'm not able to reliably open the context menu when running under Wayland

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Run a wayland session
  2. secondary click the wallpaper
  3. Nothing happens

Expected Behavior

Context menu with options for changing the wallpaper, display settings, etc

OS Version

7.x (Horus)

Software Version

Compiled from git

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

danirabbit avatar Jun 14 '23 00:06 danirabbit

I believe the gala-daemon cannot work in any form in wayland, it expect that it can use screen coordinates to positioning the menus, and that it doesn't need a toplevel parent. Neither are true.

Marukesu avatar Jun 15 '23 16:06 Marukesu

Installed on arch manually (today) and it works the first time but fails after that.

monomere avatar Jun 29 '24 12:06 monomere