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Wayland is the reference implementation of the Wayland compositor

Weston is the reference implementation of the Wayland compositor project. It is intended to be a replacement for the X windows system.

Weston can run as an X client or under Linux KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases.

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How to run Wayland/Weston?

Ubuntu 12.10 ships Weston and Wayland. What are the basic steps I need to take to make them usable? Trying to start Weston gives this and then drops back to the command prompt: $ weston Date: 2012-12-06 CET [10:53:58.368] weston 0.95.0 …
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How to run wayland(weston) on another display

When I want to run second xsession on display 1 I go to tty2 and then: export DISPLAY=:1 startx -- :1 .xinitrc contains exec startxfce4 Is it possible to run in similar way Wayland/Weston ? Does exist equivalent for startx ? When I run only Weston…
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Better Performance and Control When Running a Full Windowing System in WSLg

As for creating a root window in WSLg (e.g. for running a full Desktop Environment) there have been several options, but performance varies between them. I've tried several methods for having better performance/smoothness mentioned below. Is it…
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Can't find weston.ini on Ubuntu 17.10 to turn on Numlock

From my basic understanding Ubuntu 17.10 now uses Wayland instead of Xorg, even though it is still possible to switch between the two. I want to have my numlock key ON when I enter Ubuntu. I read people usually install numlockx to enable it, but it…
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How to run weston-launch by default

How to run weston-launch by default instead of Unity on Ubuntu 16.04? I want to run my application at startup (like in ~/.config/upstart/*.conf) in wayland environment. Is it feasible at the moment? I need a most minimalistic window manager…
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Weston is not receiving touch input (regarding touch input as mouse input)

I connected my computer with a touchscreen. My GNOME applications handles the touch events expectedly except Weston, which regards my touch input as mouse input. I tested touch using weston-simple-touch, but nothing is drawn on the interface if I…
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