Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor also developed by the Wayland project. It is written in C and published under the MIT License. Weston only has official support for the Linux operating system due to its dependence on certain features of the Linux kernel, such as kernel mode-setting, Graphics Execution Manager (GEM), and udev, which have not been implemented in other Unix-like operating systems.
Weston is a lightweight and functional Wayland compositor.
We do not support this. If you know what you’re doing, this is a reference to get started working with Weston on PantherX.
TODO
To install weston, run:
$ guix package -i weston
To launch weston, we need to set a number of environment variables:
$ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/${UID}-runtime-dir
$ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
$ /tmp/0-runtime-dir
$ mkdir "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
$ chmod 0700 "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
Now launch weston:
$ weston-launch
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