Wayland: Focusing a window requires user interaction

[bearcatsandor]

[glfw error 65544]: Wayland: Focusing a window requires user interaction
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"main", mod_spec)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "./main.py", line 13, in
main()
File "./kitty/main.py", line 292, in main
run_app(opts, args)
File "./kitty/main.py", line 202, in run_app
initialize_window(window, opts)
File "./kitty/main.py", line 161, in initialize_window
glewInit()
RuntimeError: GLEW init failed: [4] Unknown error
[glfw error 65537]: The GLFW library is not initialized

Am i missing a library here or is this not operable on Wayland yet?

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

You need to compile glew with the EGL backend. By default it is compiled with the GLX backend.

[kovidgoyal]

And you will also need to compile glfw from master as the released version of glfw has a bug that causes duplicated key presses under wayland.

[kovidgoyal]

For people that might find this bug report, you compile glew with EGL using

make SYSTEM=linux-egl

Since wayland is pretty new it's likely your distro does not have a precompiled version of glew built this way.

For example, in Arch:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56025

[dryya]

This error still occurs for me using the glew-wayland package from arch, which does set SYSTEM=linux-egl (see the PKGBUILD). I'm also using glfw-wayland-git to build from master.

I get

GL version string: '4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.0.3' Detected version: 4.5
wl_surface@13: error 3: xdg_surface must not have a buffer at creation
[135 23:29:00.699834] [glfw error 65544]: Wayland: Focusing a window requires user interaction
[135 23:29:00.699870] [glfw error 65544]: Wayland: Window position retrieval not supported

[kovidgoyal]

The information in this bug report is obsolete. kitty now has its own bundled glfw and you dont need to compile it separately. To run kitty under wayland you do

KITTY_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 kitty

also make sure that the WAYLAND_DISPLAY env var is set. As for your actual error, it is likely caused by an obsolete wayland compositor. I can tell you that kitty runs fine under weston 4.0.0

[dryya]

That's the command I was running that gave that output. Wayland display is set to "wayland-0". I'm running the latest version of the sway alpha. Will test in weston now.
Update: wayland-enabled kitty works on weston. I'll file a bug report over at sway. Thanks for the help!

[emersion]

This is not a wlroots bug. From the debug log in this comment, you're creating a xdg_surface with a wl_surface which already has a buffer attached, this is forbidden by the protocol.

[kovidgoyal]

@Aenda Feel free to pass it on to the glfw project, there is no wayland specific code in kitty itself.

[ignisf]

FYI glfw/glfw#1121

[Wayland: Focusing a window requires user interaction] will never be fixed, a client is not allowed to steal focus from another, this behaviour is extremely bad for most users, and can be catastrophic when e.g. they are typing a password or other sensitive information.