This page is old, you probably want the one on the wiki.

What works with Wayland, 2012-05-05

No toolkit

weston-terminal is included with Weston and works fine.

GTK+

Works

gnome-terminal (screenshot)
gedit
vte (terminal, not packaged by ubuntu)
gnome-calculator
file-roller
charmap
gnome-sudoku
gwibber
transmission-gtk
brasero (disk burner)
gnome-sound-recorder
baobab (disk usage analyzer)
orca - runs but doesn't read
rhythmbox
gnome-system-monitor

Applications compiled against GTK+ with both wayland and x11 support will only run if linked at run time against GTK+ which also includes support for both backends. Compile and run time checks don't avert that problem.

To get gnome-terminal to work outside of X, you probably want to launch weston as "dbus-launch ~/install/bin/weston", and run gnome-terminal as "gnome-terminal --disable-factory".

Broken

chromium	Runs with X output.
nautilus	Runs with X output.
palimpsest disk utility	palimpsest: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libunique-3.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gdk_x11_display_get_startup_notification_id https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/975713	bug
sol (solitare)	sol: symbol lookup error: sol: undefined symbol: gdk_x11_set_sm_client_id
mahjongg	(mahjongg:13452): Gdk-ERROR **: Unsupported GDK backend: wayland	bug
gnomine	(gnomine:14033): Gdk-ERROR **: Unsupported GDK backend: wayland	bug
evince	evince: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied
shotwell	shotwell: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libunique-3.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gdk_x11_display_get_startup_notification_id
empathy	Output is mangled, but it does send its output to Wayland.
totem	totem: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libtotem.so.0: undefined symbol: gdk_x11_set_sm_client_id	bug

Bugs for unpackaged browser that are broken: WebKitGTK+, Midori.

Qt

QtWebKit (web browser) works. Anything migrated to Qt5 is likely to work. Qt5 Alpha was released 2012-04-03.

Wayland