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Juanito:
Due to changes in the structure of the mesa graphics libraries several graphics extensions have been updated in the tc-16.x x86_64 repo.

It is almost certain that some gui extensions will now be missing dependencies, please report these here so it can be fixed.

It is also possible that one or more circular depencies have been created.

Xorg-7.7, Xorg-7.7-3d, Xorg-7.7-3d-vulkan, weston and labwc have all been tested on intel hd4400 haswell graphics hardware

The following have been added/changed/updated:
Xorg-7.7-3d-dev.tcz
Xorg-7.7-3d-vulkan.tcz
Xorg-7.7-3d.tcz
Xorg-7.7-bin.tcz
libEGL-dev.tcz
libEGL.tcz
libGL-dev.tcz
libGL.tcz
libGLESv2-dev.tcz
libGLESv2.tcz
mesa-dev.tcz
mesa-vulkan.tcz
mesa.tcz
weston.tcz
xkbcomp.tcz

The following dep files have changed:
firefox-ESR.tcz.dep
labwc.tcz.dep (missing a dep on xwayland?)
libva22-dev.tcz.dep
libva22.tcz.dep
xorg-server-dev.tcz.dep
xorg-server.tcz.dep

GNUser:
Hi Juanito. Thank you for these updates, which make it possible to use mesa + wayland compositors without dragging in all of Xorg. This is a really nice upgrade to the TCL repository.


--- Quote from: Juanito on October 17, 2025, 08:21:48 AM ---labwc.tcz.dep (missing a dep on xwayland?)

--- End quote ---

labwc.tcz.dep should not contain xwayland, to accommodate users who want a pure wayland environment. labwc.tcz.info explains how to run labwc with and without xwayland.

Juanito:

--- Quote from: GNUser on October 17, 2025, 12:10:10 PM ---labwc.tcz.dep should not contain xwayland, to accommodate users who want a pure wayland environment. labwc.tcz.info explains how to run labwc with and without xwayland.

--- End quote ---

Now that you mention it, I do remember you telling me that :)

GNUser:
Hi Juanito. meld.tcz was working before these changes but seems to be broken now on TCL16.2 x86_64:


--- Code: ---$ version
16.2
$ tce-load -wi meld
$ /usr/local/bin/meld

** (meld:14215): WARNING **: 23:38:33.425: Failed to load shared library 'libgtksourceview-3.0.so.1' referenced by the typelib: libglapi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 384, in <module>
    setup_resources()
  File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 249, in setup_resources
    GtkSource.StyleSchemeManager.get_default().append_search_path(style_path)
gi.repository.GLib.Error: g-invoke-error-quark: Could not locate gtk_source_style_scheme_manager_get_default: (null) (1)
--- End code ---

It seems the problem is that libGL.tcz no longer provides libglapi.so.0

Here are the files that used to be provided by libGL.tcz:


--- Code: ---/usr/local/lib/libGL.so
/usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0
/usr/local/lib/libglapi.so
/usr/local/lib/libglapi.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libglapi.so.0.0.0
--- End code ---

But now only these files are provided:

--- Code: ---/usr/local/lib/libGL.so
/usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0
--- End code ---

GNUser:
I noticed another small change: xfe file manager used to start practically instantly. After this refactoring of graphics-related packages, xfe now takes about 2 seconds to start. There are no errors or warnings in the terminal.

This change would not be a big deal if xfe were a program that I only ran once in a GUI session. But it's probably the program that gets run and rerun the most times when I'm in a GUI (dozens, or even 100 or more times depending on what I'm doing), so I feel like I'm trekking through molasses.

I'll investigate further and will also try recompiling.

Hi Rich. IIRC you also use xfe. Are you still using it, on TCL16 x86_64? If so, have you also noticed the slowdown?

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