<![CDATA[Status of Wayland support and how to enable]]>Hello all,

KUbuntu 21.04

xlsclients command shows Opera running on Xwayland emulation, not native Wayland.

snap connections opera shows:
...
wayland opera:wayland :wayland -
x11 opera:x11 :x11

Googled for a while, but did not find any info on weather Opera even supports Wayland? Opera help web site does not even mention it...

So:

  1. Is Wayland supported? (native Wayland, of course - not XWayland emulation)
  2. How to enable it?

Thanks,
Andrej

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/49172/status-of-wayland-support-and-how-to-enableRSS for NodeSun, 07 Jun 2026 00:35:30 GMTFri, 14 May 2021 08:50:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:36:02 GMT]]>opera --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland [20725:20725:0422/110332.083236:ERROR:wayland_connection.cc(200)] Failed to connect to Wayland display: No such file or directory (2) [20725:20725:0422/110332.083262:ERROR:ozone_platform_wayland.cc(264)] Failed to initialize Wayland platform [20725:20725:0422/110332.083264:ERROR:env.cc(257)] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.

Opera does not seem to detect the Wayland Display on the other hand chromium works just fine.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/348635https://forums.opera.com/post/348635Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:36:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:05:15 GMT]]>If for whatever reason your Opera session runs under XWayland (the nested X11 server for Wayland), set the (opera://flags/#ozone-platform-hint) flag to "Wayland."

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278783https://forums.opera.com/post/278783Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:05:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:02:04 GMT]]>Set this flag to "Wayland".

[opera://flags/#ozone-platform-hint]

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278782https://forums.opera.com/post/278782Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:02:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:48:06 GMT]]>@gigol Recent update to Chromium fixed this.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261658https://forums.opera.com/post/261658Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:48:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:19:49 GMT]]>It seems Opera does support wayland perfectly fine, you can execute it as such:

opera --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland %U

Though it seems when editing opera.desktop it doesn't has the desired effect, put this here ~/.local/share/applications/opera.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Opera
GenericName=Web browser
Comment=Fast and secure web browser
TryExec=opera
Exec=opera --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland %U
Terminal=false
Icon=opera
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;application/x-opera-download;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window
Exec=opera --new-window --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=New Private Window
Exec=opera --incognito --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Hope that helps!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261618https://forums.opera.com/post/261618Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:19:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Tue, 03 Aug 2021 23:19:15 GMT]]>@webninja Opera is based on Chromium; as such, it will have Wayland support when Chrome does. Firefox is not based on Chromium and can do what they want in that regard.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/258756https://forums.opera.com/post/258756Tue, 03 Aug 2021 23:19:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:44:39 GMT]]>More and more people are running Wayland and Firefox supports Wayland without the X compatibility layer.

Running opera-developer 79.0.4135.0 I get:

[1359809:1359809:0803/164440.133269:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1409)] Unable to open X display.
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/258748https://forums.opera.com/post/258748Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:44:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Wed, 19 May 2021 04:40:30 GMT]]>@karbonat - Question is about >>Opera<< support for Wayland.

Not how to enable Wayland as such. Which I of course already did, and should be obvious from my post.

Thanks,
Andrej.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/252397https://forums.opera.com/post/252397Wed, 19 May 2021 04:40:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Status of Wayland support and how to enable on Tue, 18 May 2021 17:18:33 GMT]]>@afalout said in Status of Wayland support and how to enable:

native Wayland

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/202891/how-to-know-whether-wayland-or-x11-is-being-used

check this, please.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/252326https://forums.opera.com/post/252326Tue, 18 May 2021 17:18:33 GMT