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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mark.yao@rock-chips.com" title="Mark Yao <mark.yao@rock-chips.com>"> <span class="fn">Mark Yao</span></a>
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title="RESOLVED FIXED - failed to create display when use "weston --backend=wayland-backend.so""
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90562">bug 90562</a>
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title="RESOLVED FIXED - failed to create display when use "weston --backend=wayland-backend.so""
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90562#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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title="RESOLVED FIXED - failed to create display when use "weston --backend=wayland-backend.so""
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90562">bug 90562</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mark.yao@rock-chips.com" title="Mark Yao <mark.yao@rock-chips.com>"> <span class="fn">Mark Yao</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Pekka Paalanen from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=90562#c3">comment #3</a>)
<span class="quote">> Weston's Wayland-backend is meant for running Weston under another Wayland
> compositor, yes. Just like the DRM backend is for running Weston on DRM/KMS,
> the fbdev backend is for running Weston on /dev/fb, and the X11 backend is
> for running Weston under an X server.
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> (In reply to Mark Yao from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=90562#c2">comment #2</a>)
> > I test run weston --backend=x11-backend.so,success
> > then open weston desktop shell:
> > int the desktop shell: run weston --backend=wayland-backend.so,
> > success display but get this Error: libwayland: unable to lock lockfile
> > /run/user/0/wayland-0.lock, maybe another compositor is running
> > Is it right?
>
> This is because Weston 1.6.0 IIRC did not yet automatically search for a
> free socket name. You can work around that by specifying --socket with an
> unused name on the command line. Weston 1.7.0 should find a free socket name
> automatically.
>
> > BTW, if I didn't use weston, like glmark2-es2-wayland or gtk3-demo with
> > wayland,
> > I should run weston first? or there is another way to run an existing
> > Wayland compositor.
>
> You can run whatever compositor you want. Weston is just one of them and not
> in any way mandatory. GNOME has one, KDE has one, E has one, and there are
> more.
>
> > My trying is just want to run a destop with wayland backend.
>
> I can't see why? If it works, you already have a Wayland environment
> running, and you don't need Weston with the wayland backend.
>
> I think you are confusing some concepts here. The wayland backend is *not*
> needed to get a Wayland environment running. A Wayland compositor provides a
> Wayland environment for its clients in any case.</span >
Thanks, I think I get the point.</pre>
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