Bug#977857: libreoffice-common: On Wayland, it doesn't work without the xwayland pkg but installation does not pull xwayland as a dependency

Arnoud Dekker writes: Thanks to https://wiki.duckcorp.org/index.php/Using_Wayland : Installing libreoffice-gtk3 made libreoffice work for me on a bullseye install running sway and not having xwayland installed. Thank you for the heads-up, I will check that.

Bug#977857: libreoffice-common: On Wayland, it doesn't work without the xwayland pkg but installation does not pull xwayland as a dependency

Rene Engelhard writes: Is this common? I mean this would haven been reported far earlier/in many more cases? Isn't the "GNOME" Session defaulting to wayland nowadays? Ah, both GNOME and KDE depend on xwayland. Which DE/WM do you use? I use Sway on Wayland and during the installation of b

Bug#977857: libreoffice-common: On Wayland, it doesn't work without the xwayland pkg but installation does not pull xwayland as a dependency

As an additional informaton, I've tried installing the vanilla LibreOffice 7.0.4.2 distribution from www.libreoffice.org, installed these three packages: libobasis7.0-images_7.0.4.2-2_amd64.deb libreoffice7.0_7.0.4.2-2_amd64.deb libreoffice7.0-calc_7.0.4.2-2_amd64.deb libreoffice7.0-writer_7.0.4

Bug#977857: libreoffice-common: On Wayland, it doesn't work without the xwayland pkg but installation does not pull xwayland as a dependency

Package: libreoffice-common Version: 1:7.0.4~rc2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have installed Libreoffice on a Wayland+Sway system without any X11 package (included xwayland). Upon starting libreoffice I get an error because the display :0 is tried: ``` $ soffice --version LibreOffice