[Debconf-devel] Bug#798819: debconf: support for Wayland

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 02:21:09PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> So I'm running "GNOME on Wayland" and now the Debconf Graphical User
> Interface does not show up. This seems to be because of the limitation
> Wayland has, as it does not support X11 like Forwarding.
> 
> The FAQ on Wayland has some ideas, but I don't think anything is readily
> available.
> 
> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_7

I'm sorry for the very long delay in replying to this!

I don't quite see the link with forwarding, unless you're connecting
over SSH.  I just tested the debconf UI in a bookworm VM running
Wayland, and things seemed to work fine (it used Xwayland until I
realized I had to pass the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable through
sudo, but that was the only hitch).

Is it possible that this has been fixed by something other than debconf
in the intervening years?

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]