Native Wayland Support

selflein

While Zotero works under Wayland through the Xwayland, this causes issues with high DPI scaling (blurry, ...).

Currently, when setting the GTK backend to wayland Zotero refuses to start:

> GDK_BACKEND=wayland flatpak run org.zotero.Zotero
Error: cannot open display: :99.0

The same thing happens with the binary

> GDK_BACKEND=wayland ./zotero
Error: cannot open display: :0

I think it should be possible since both Firefox and GTK support Wayland.

ozankiratli

I also tried to push the DISPLAY parameter. But it doesn't work.

> GDK_BACKEND=wayland DISPLAY=wayland-0 zotero
zotero: line 13: 80152 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$CALLDIR/zotero-bin" -app "$CALLDIR/application.ini" "$@"

vjjaimez

The Zotero devs are working on a new version based on a more recent Firefox platform:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/97116/bug-scrollbars-in-zotero-do-not-work-well-with-upcoming-breeze-gtk-5-25-in-kde-plasma#latest
My hope is that this will give Zotero proper Wayland support, but I'm no expert.

sigmasd

Hello, just bumping this issue, currently zotero is the only software I have that doesn't have native wayland support.

pgh

Bump. What's the status of the Firefox update? Firefox has had good Wayland support for a while now. An important bug regarding fractional scaling was fixed in the current beta release of Firefox, i.e. version 109. I would strongly urge Zotero to update to 109 when this happens.

ctaskin

Bump!

adamsmith

I doubt you're going to get something more specific than that it's being worked on and will be released 2023 on this.

ch4xer

Bump. sway user here, hope zotero will support native wayland.

VitalyR

Bump. Zotero always blinks for it's running on XWayland on Gnome Wayland. I Hope Zotero will support native Wayland :)

Lovetess

The only programme I currently use that doesn't handle wayland natively is zotero.

Sciroccogti

https://rgoswami.me/posts/revisiting-wayland-2021-archlinux/#reference-management There's a blog posted a nice workaround, and it solved the problem for me.

ttshow

Waiting for it!

Sciroccogti

Zotero 7.0.0 beta seems to have supported MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

dstillman

Have people noticed any problems with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1? We can enable this by default in Zotero 7, but we want to make sure we don't introduce any problems in doing so.

poettli

I didn't notice any problem in my daily use. And setting it helped to solve this issue. (While I didn't use the LO add-in extensively.)

[Edit] I wonder if it might help in the case of this issue.

VitalyR

I've been using Firefox with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 for more than 2 years and no troubles have emerged. With Zotero 7 and MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 for more than 2 months, there aren't any problems, either.

poettli

I guess MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 is now enabled by default in Zotero 7 beta 59. I have tested with LO on Ubuntu (after disabling the option in ~/.profile) and all the Zotero windows pop above LO window, as expected. This also solves this issue for Zotero 7 beta.