On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Bill Spitzak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any hints on what is needed to make xserver work under x11-compositor? > > Is it possible without setuid? > > From the sample launch script I have, it seems to require running wayland > with --xserver, and also running the new Xorg (which did compile and > install) with "-wayland -rootless :2". > > I am a little confused as to why there are two steps. It seems the xserver > can be entirely a wayland client. It does seem both are doing xorg things, > including writing to a log file and reading xorg.conf. Any quick > explanation as to what is being done by wayland and what is being done by > Xorg? Or perhaps (as I kind of hope...) I have just found two ways of doing > the same thing, and only running this xorg is needed? > > The script and error messages indicate that I need a special xorg.conf > file, which I don't have. Anybody have an example? Or any other guesses as > to how this should work? > > I really do want to do some development of the shell api, but since the > xserver is probably the most important client of that right now I don't > think it would be a good idea to try anything without making that work. > > It sounds like you should read the xwayland build guide http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html There's no trick to it, you just install everything and start weston with --xserver and DISPLAY should automatically be set in the environment so you can start running X apps. Read the build guide and use the default configure options, you don't need to do all this extra stuff you do to break it before it has a chance to work.
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