On 04/25/2014 10:38 PM, pplive wrote:

Dear all,

I have installed ArchLinux on a virtual machine hosted by my VirtualBox. The desktop I picked is enlightenment

I have also installed wayland/weston by pacman.

I tried to play with weston according to the following page:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wayland

If I just run weston, I can create a window, and I can configure the height/width of the window.

However, when I tried "weston-launch", there is an error message

"weston-launch must be run from a virtual terminal"

As the message says, it must be run from a VT (tty). Since you're using VBox, you won't be able to run it from VT with standard configuration. VBox doesn't have proper graphics stack for that. fbdev backend works though weston-launch -- --backend=fbdev-backend.so

When I tried "weston-flower", the error information is as follows: "error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment. failed to connect to Wayland display: NO such file or directory failed to create display: No such file or directory"

No compositor (weston) running in the session you are starting weston-flower from? XDG_RUNTIME_DIR should be set by systemd at login.

Did I miss something? Can somebody provide me some hints?

Thanks so much!

Best regards, Alex

-- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.