#1136965 openlp: Configurarion needed to run on Wayland

Package:
openlp
Source:
openlp
Submitter:
John Lines
Date:
2026-05-17 18:43:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1136965#5
Date:
2026-05-17 18:40:56 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Openlp shows a garbled sceeen under Wayland unless run from CLI as
 env XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 GDK_BACKEND=x11 openlp &

or as the following configuration in /usr/share/applications/openlp.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=AudioVideo;
Exec=env XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 GDK_BACKEND=x11 openlp %F
GenericName=Church lyrics projection
Comment=Project lyrics, bible verses, media and more.
Icon=openlp
MimeType=application/x-openlp-service;
Name=OpenLP
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Keywords=projection,multimedia,videos,music,songs,worship
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false

Please update Desktop file and add note to README.Debian, Thank you