14 DAY TRIAL // Caolán McNamara, a renowned Red Hat engineer, has recently published some interesting details, claiming that he managed to get the well-known LibreOffice open-source office suite to run on the next-generation Wayland display server.
According to Mr. McNamara, LibreOffice runs on the Wayland 1.8 display server via the GTK+ 3 VCL plugin. As expected, the developer did all the work on a Fedora 22 Linux operating system, and he reports that LibreOffice can be launched successfully, and you can interact with the software as you do on your regular X11 session.
"Hacked LibreOffice a bit more today towards Wayland support via the gtk3 vclplug. Good news is that it launches, displays and you can interact with it mostly as expected," says Caolán McNamara. "Downside is that I can't resize the window and the menubar is displayed behind the title bar. Maybe a client side decoration issue."
Please enjoy the video below, posted by The Linux Homefront project, where you will see how well LibreOffice runs on Wayland 1.8. In related news, the Mozilla Firefox web browser was hacked not long ago as well to run on Wayland. More details can be found on this Google+ post.
