Created attachment 122789 [details] screenshot When setting gnome to "show icons on desktop" with tweak tool, X crashes, user has to login again and icons don't show anyway. If logging in again without wayland, icons show again.
Are you sure it's Xwayland who crashes? Could you provide a log or a backtrace of Xwayland when it crashes? Reason I'm asking is because icons on desktop in GNOME is not supported in Wayland will never be (see [1]). It is (was? see [2]) implemented in Nautilus, but it cannot work under Wayland. It used to crash Nautilus if enabled on Wayland (which could be the problem, but then it's not Xwayland crashing) and it should be fixed by now [3]. Here (using GNOME 3.20 on F24), enabling icons on the desktop doesn't crash anything. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748347 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712620 [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746286
tl;dr; I think this is gnome bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746286
Gnome bug 746286 looks like it's been closed as fixed. In any case, there appears not enough data to indicate there is an actual Wayland bug here. Optimistically closing as already taken care of. If this isn't a dupe of 746286, feel free to reopen with the requested crash log.
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