[arch-general] Using Wayland/Weston in ArchLinux

[Armin K.]

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
> 


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