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Wayland support missing for RaspberryPi Bookworm #2281

Open maurerle opened 1 year ago

maurerle commented 1 year ago

Hello, I started learning programming using Greenfoot and BlueJ and just read on https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bookworm-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/ that the latest raspberrypi os bookworm release does not include bluej and greenfoot anymore, due to missing wayland support.

I did not see an issue in the public bug tracker covering this issue. So to raise awareness, I am creating an issue for this.

I did not have problems running greenfoot from the .jar file on Debian 12 Bookworm Nor did I have problems running it on my debian 12 laptop with wayland.

The related issue is: https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/12

So it would be very cool to fix this, so that other people can still learn programming with these nice two applications! Thanks!

Lenni-builder commented 5 months ago

Native Wayland support would be a win for Linux in general, not just Raspberry Pi OS. For now there is XWayland, but that's not ideal. It doesn't support things like fractional scaling for example which is needed for proper rendering on HiDPI displays.

neilccbrown commented 2 months ago

We now ship BlueJ for Raspberry Pi which has a fix for the menu issues, at least. We plan to make a release of Greenfoot for Raspberry Pi soon.