How can an X11 tell it's running in XWayland?

Fri Jul 31 00:52:32 PDT 2015

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 09:48:53AM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Some apps should be run in a plain X11 session but not in XWayland (e.g. an
> X11 screensaver makes no sense in Wayland/XWayland).
> 
> There is one atom WL_SURFACE_ID that should be created only on/by XWayland
> (for obvious reasons), is that reliable enough to determine we're running
> on XWayland?

Might be missing something obvious but shouldn't it be possible to check
whether WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable is set?

Jonas

> 
> Thanks,
> Olivier

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