#1033199 blender: Does not run on Wayland: GHOST: failed to initialize display for back-end(s): ['X11']

Package:
blender
Source:
blender
Description:
Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
Submitter:
Michael Franzl
Date:
2026-03-13 10:33:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1033199#5
Date:
2023-03-19 14:55:20 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I am attempting to start Blender on Wayland. It immediately stops with the error

GHOST: failed to initialize display for back-end(s): ['X11']

However, the same version of Blender starts without issue when downloaded from blender.org .
In fact, Wayland is officially supported since 3.4x onward. See https://code.blender.org/2022/10/wayland-support-on-linux/

Perhaps it should be built with the flag WITH_GHOST_WAYLAND if possible?

Best regards,

Michael
#1033199#12
Date:
2024-08-13 12:14:16 UTC
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To:
What's the blocker on enabling Wayland support?
#1033199#17
Date:
2025-02-26 10:01:07 UTC
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Dear maintainers,

Could you please consider the Wayland support in the Debian package? As
reported 2 years ago, Wayland is officially supported by Blender since 3.4x.

Regarding the last build log - 4.3.2+dfsg-2 - it seems that some build
dependencies are missing which disable WITH_GHOST_WAYLAND - it is ON by
default:

[...]
-- Checking for module 'wayland-protocols>=1.31'
--   Package 'wayland-protocols', required by 'virtual:world', not found
-- wayland-protocols not found, disabling WITH_GHOST_WAYLAND
[...]

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Jérôme
#1033199#24
Date:
2025-04-05 21:27:54 UTC
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Seems to build with Wayland just fine if wayland-protocols is installed. Runs almost successfully.
#1033199#31
Date:
2026-03-13 10:21:18 UTC
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I've filed
https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/blender/-/merge_requests/13 on
Salsa, which hopefully will result in this bug being closed.


 Best,
 Gard