[systemd-devel] Not able to start Weston dependent application

deepan muthusamy deepan.m2903 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 11:45:45 UTC 2018


Hi,
I followed the steps in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/39/diffs

It's working fine.

Thank you all..

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 5:49 pm Jérémy Rosen, <jeremy.rosen at smile.fr> wrote:

>
>
> On 31/10/2018 12:40, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:32:45 +0100
> Jérémy Rosen <jeremy.rosen at smile.fr> <jeremy.rosen at smile.fr> wrote:
>
>
> socket-activated weston ?
>
> nice :)
>
> Why does weston require logind ? I work in the embedded world and we
> usually disable logind entirely (no users in the "human user" meaning of
> the term)
>
>
> That's when you run Weston as a normal user: logind grants access to
> DRM and input devices and revokes access as well when appropriate.
>
> Ok, no problem, we can deal with that in lots of ways.
>
> I was afraid there was some more tricky stuff (dependencies on dbus API or
> something like that)
>
>
>
> logind is not a hard requirement. That option has usually been
> called for by people who don't have systemd at all. I'm not sure Weston
> has ever been tested on systemd but without logind. Or maybe it works
> and no-one told upstream. :-)
>
> It works and no one told upstream :P
>
> Weston (and wayland in general ) are a boon to the embedded world.
>
> We are regularly asked to do systems with very precise placement for
> different windows coming from different apps
>
> (think of a car, where the map application is usually an html5 in-browser
> application, but you can swith to air-conditionning control which is a
> hand-made Qt application, and the the back camera which is a separate
> Qt+Gstreamer application)
>
> In the bad-old days, we would have to play with X and window-managers like
> Awesome to do that (or write our own window manager which is... hell)
>
> Now, we have weston which is very good at dealing with that (thx IVI mode)
> or we can write or own compositor which is almost as easy as writing a
> normal GUI application (qtcompositor, mainly)
>
> A bit offtopic here, sorry about that.
>
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