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Xenphor

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Registered: 2011-07-01

Posts: 47

Any way to setup a minimal wayland based desktop similar to minimal X?

I use autologin virtual console as well as auto start X to boot into openbox with lxpanel as a panel. So it looks like this:

Auto login

/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty --autologin username --noclear %I 38400 linux

~/.bash_profile

[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx

I use .xinit to load openbox session and then use the openbox autostart file to load lxpanel.

So how would I replicate this setup using Wayland?

jdbrown

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Registered: 2014-01-03

Posts: 73

Re: Any way to setup a minimal wayland based desktop similar to minimal X?

It depends on what compositor you want to use, each compositor has its own way to launch. For Gnome on Wayland it is

gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland

For weston, its

weston-launch

and you can replace $DISPLAY with $WAYLAND_DISPLAY to test whether a compositor is running.

cafe

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From: Brasil

Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 165

Re: Any way to setup a minimal wayland based desktop similar to minimal X?

Gnome on wayland is pretty stable since 3.16. I've been using it intensively these last days. The only annoying problem I've found is with evince zooming options going up, instead of down. I've been using atril since. Just like jdbrown said, run

gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland

More info on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … ting_GNOME

Last edited by cafe (2015-07-01 01:05:28)

Xenphor

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Registered: 2011-07-01

Posts: 47

Re: Any way to setup a minimal wayland based desktop similar to minimal X?

What are the minimal amount of packages required to get a gnome wayland session going? I would ideally just like to have whatever is necessary for the compositor and such and then install any other appson my own. I installed gnome-session from the gnome pack but executing the command in a different terminal doesn't do anything like executing weston would.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Any way to setup a minimal wayland based desktop similar to minimal X?

Old fnordic proverb: He who reads wiki only need ask for context.

Context: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wa … top_shells

Xenphor

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Registered: 2011-07-01

Posts: 47

Re: Any way to setup a minimal wayland based desktop similar to minimal X?

Old fnordic proverb: He who reads wiki only need ask for context.

Context: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wa … top_shells

Yes I read that and still couldn't find what I wanted. The closest thing I found was orbital but I was unable to get it working because the panel was severely bugged and couldn't even open a terminal window or run any applications.

I just want something like weston reference which has a panel for applications and that's pretty much it. I wanted to try other compositors though besides weston to see if they have any better performance or features.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Any way to setup a minimal wayland based desktop similar to minimal X?

Most of the desktops will be weston plugins. What I wanted to tell you was, that you are looking for weston plugins. As a matter of sadness, there currently is not much in that regard.