I tried stable versions back to 1.10. No version of minecraft runs on my desktop. There are several reports clarifying the work needed to support wayland. Updating LWJGL was the first step.
See:
I do not think that further work on my end will be productive until someone can confirm that other wayland desktops are working correctly. According to the bug database it is unlikely that any of them worked pre-pre4 🙂
>Is any version before -pre3 running?
No.
Same result on pre4 - stuck looking up/down.
As of pre5 I am no longer seeing this.
This has been fixed - likely by upstream.