The answer is basically 'patches welcome'. The original reason for adding a weston user was to simply not run weston as root (which was the case before). Further improving this to allow regular users use core-image-weston for graphical things would be good, but figuring out technical specifics is on you.
Alex On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 21:13, Mark Hatle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 11/1/22 3:03 PM, Gundlupet Raju, Sandeep wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We wanted to know what the actual use case is for running weston as > > weston user only in OE core > > http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init/weston.service#n44 > > > > > > How is this expected to be used for another user. Is this intended to > > be run as the primary machine user or is there another approach? For a > > system where weston starts itself, it’s expected to start with the > > weston user only? > > > > Can we add a existing user to weston group and make it to work? > > An additional question: > > For a system w/o mouse and keyboard, can we ssh in and execute our wayland > tests > from remote? If so, what user should we be using (weston), can we define our > own user? > > --Mark > > > Thanks, > > Sandeep > > >
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