Multiple Wayland Servers

nerdopolis bluescreen_avenger at verizon.net
Wed Nov 24 19:56:35 PST 2010


On Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:15:16 pm you wrote:
> On 11/24/2010 04:51 PM, nerdopolis wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Just a quick quseion is how are Wayland servers identified?
> > 
> > In X we have the DISPLAY identifier, can be specified by an environment
> > variable, or argument.
> > 
> > How is it going to specified in Wayland?
> > 
> > Also, what will replace xhost? its prevent one user from running an app
> > in another users server to take a screenshot, or capture key codes, and
> > at the same time allow wanted user accounts, like a deamon or something
> > display stuff on the screen.
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> 
> compositor.c:1438
> /* The plan here is to generate a random anonymous socket name and
>   * advertise that through a service on the session dbus.
>   */
> static const char socket_name[] = "\0wayland";
> 
> I am not sure how this will work for running multiple Wayland servers at
> the same time though. It is possible though
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/820737/MultipleCompositors.png


So if its by a random DBUS token,how would the user tell the app what session 
to tell the app to connect to if they are using a nested session or something 
like that? 


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