FS#52967 - [weston] Please make the dependency on xorg-server-xwayland an optdepends
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Opened by Link Mauve (linkmauve) - Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 19:56 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Sunday, 26 February 2017, 13:31 GMT
Opened by Link Mauve (linkmauve) - Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 19:56 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Sunday, 26 February 2017, 13:31 GMT
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Description:
xorg-server-xwayland is far from necessary to run Weston, it is only useful when the user has some legacy applications that haven’t been ported to a modern toolkit yet, and thus it should only be an optdepends. Additional info: * package version(s) weston 1.12.0-3 * config and/or log files etc. N/A Steps to reproduce: pacman -Si weston |
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Closed by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Sunday, 26 February 2017, 13:31 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Sunday, 26 February 2017, 13:31 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Manual page of weston is clear enough.
XWAYLAND
XWayland requires a special X.org server to be installed. This X server will connect to a Way‐
land server as a Wayland client, and X clients will connect to the X server. XWayland provides
backwards compatibility to X applications in a Wayland stack.
XWayland is activated by instructing weston to load the XWayland module, see EXAMPLES. Weston
starts listening on a new X display socket, and exports it in the environment variable DISPLAY.
When the first X client connects, Weston launches a special X server as a Wayland client to
handle the X client and all future X clients.
It has also its own X window manager where cursor themes and sizes can be chosen using XCUR‐
SOR_PATH and XCURSOR_SIZE environment variables. See ENVIRONMENT.