https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90562
Mark Yao <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|INVALID |FIXED --- Comment #4 from Mark Yao <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Pekka Paalanen from comment #3) > Weston's Wayland-backend is meant for running Weston under another Wayland > compositor, yes. Just like the DRM backend is for running Weston on DRM/KMS, > the fbdev backend is for running Weston on /dev/fb, and the X11 backend is > for running Weston under an X server. > > (In reply to Mark Yao from comment #2) > > I test run weston --backend=x11-backend.so,success > > then open weston desktop shell: > > int the desktop shell: run weston --backend=wayland-backend.so, > > success display but get this Error: libwayland: unable to lock lockfile > > /run/user/0/wayland-0.lock, maybe another compositor is running > > Is it right? > > This is because Weston 1.6.0 IIRC did not yet automatically search for a > free socket name. You can work around that by specifying --socket with an > unused name on the command line. Weston 1.7.0 should find a free socket name > automatically. > > > BTW, if I didn't use weston, like glmark2-es2-wayland or gtk3-demo with > > wayland, > > I should run weston first? or there is another way to run an existing > > Wayland compositor. > > You can run whatever compositor you want. Weston is just one of them and not > in any way mandatory. GNOME has one, KDE has one, E has one, and there are > more. > > > My trying is just want to run a destop with wayland backend. > > I can't see why? If it works, you already have a Wayland environment > running, and you don't need Weston with the wayland backend. > > I think you are confusing some concepts here. The wayland backend is *not* > needed to get a Wayland environment running. A Wayland compositor provides a > Wayland environment for its clients in any case. Thanks, I think I get the point. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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