PCem on Linux: is the pop-up menu incompatible with Wayland?

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lebout2canap
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PCem on Linux: is the pop-up menu incompatible with Wayland?

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Hi,

I'm a new and satisfied PCem user. But before that, I ran into an issue that made PCem almost unusable.

First of all, I have to clarify, that I'm on Linux (Fedora 32, Gnome 3.36), that I failed to compile PCem myself, so that I used this repository: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/blowry/pcem/.

In the Readme-LINUX.txt, it's written “The menu is a pop-up menu in the Linux port. Right-click on the main window when mouse is not captured”. Yet when I right clicked, nothing happened. I ended up realizing that the problem is that I'm not in an X11 session, but a Wayland session. To work around the problem, I don't have to start an X11 session, instead I use the following bash command.

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GDK_BACKEND=x11 pcem
Hoping that my experience will be useful to others.
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