<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Bill Spitzak <<a href="mailto:spitzak@gmail.com" target="_blank">spitzak@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Any hints on what is needed to make xserver work under x11-compositor? Is it possible without setuid? >From the sample launch script I have, it seems to require running wayland with --xserver, and also running the new Xorg (which did compile and install) with "-wayland -rootless :2". I am a little confused as to why there are two steps. It seems the xserver can be entirely a wayland client. It does seem both are doing xorg things, including writing to a log file and reading xorg.conf. Any quick explanation as to what is being done by wayland and what is being done by Xorg? Or perhaps (as I kind of hope...) I have just found two ways of doing the same thing, and only running this xorg is needed? The script and error messages indicate that I need a special xorg.conf file, which I don't have. Anybody have an example? Or any other guesses as to how this should work? I really do want to do some development of the shell api, but since the xserver is probably the most important client of that right now I don't think it would be a good idea to try anything without making that work. </blockquote><div> It sounds like you should read the xwayland build guide <a href="http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html">http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html</a> There's no trick to it, you just install everything and start weston with --xserver and DISPLAY should automatically be set in the environment so you can start running X apps. Read the build guide and use the default configure options, you don't need to do all this extra stuff you do to break it before it has a chance to work. </div></div>