Add Wayland support to GNOME Flashback session

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First I would like to hear why do you want Wayland with GNOME Flashback?

The main reason is that Wayland is tearing-free by design. XOrg needs a window manager with compositing to avoid tearing.

Any update of this? Thank you!

No.

I found a possible workaround, I would like to check if it's correct and safe to try:

Just add a gnome-classic.desktop to /usr/share/wayland-sessions/. It can be copied from /usr/share/xsessions.

Thank you!

P.S.: You can read the full text here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/65pagm/login_to_gnome_classic_with_wayland_on_fed25/

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780258

How that is workaround? GNOME Flashback is not GNOME Classic.

GNOME Classic is gnome-shell + extensions. If you want that then you can try, I don't know if that will work...

Ok! I though Gnome Flashback was Gnome Classic, some websites refer to Gnome Flashback as Gnome Classic. Thank you!

Closing, it is not simple task and there are still no plans to do it in near future.