KiCad

Usability in wayland

Asked by Fabián Inostroza

Hi,

Has kicad been tested in wayland?, I'm running debian testing and recently they set wayland by default for gnome.

Now kicad is unable to control the cursor position and this causes annoying behavior when changing options using right click while drawing a wire or track.
The "pan while moving object" and the "center and warp cursor on zoom" doesn't work very well on wayland.

I can switch back to X11 but seems like wayland is the future.

Fedora has shipped wayland for some time, do these problems also exists in fedora?

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Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz) said : 		#1

Hi Fabian,

I am afraid none of the regular KiCad developers uses wayland right now. The question is whether it is a KiCad, Wayland or wxWidgets bug. In any case, you are encouraged to fill out a bug report [1], so if someone has a bit of spare time and will - the problem will be investigated.

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+filebug

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Nick Østergaard (nickoe) said : 		#2

Similar issues are seen for users with ubuntu 17.10, which also defaults to wayland. They report that zooming does not work as it used to. Selecting x11 at login "fixes" the issue for those users.

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Eldar Khayrullin (eldar) said : 		#3

The same issue in Ubuntu 17.10 (wayland)

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