Q: xwayland overt Qt-compositor?

[darxus at chaosreigns.com]

On 08/21, jegde jedge wrote:
> Please forgive the 'user' post in a devel list.

This post seems entirely appropriate to me.

> I am porting a fundamentally Qt system but still need some X backward
> compatability?

You consider porting to be a user subject?

> I am unclear of the Qt/X/Weston/Wayland interoperability.
> 
> Does the weston compositor work with Qt5 apps?
> Can the Qt5-compositor run the Weston apps?

I haven't tested them lately, but I believe the answers should be yes.  

> Will the Qt compositor host the xwayland server?

I haven't heard.  I'm still not entirely sure what the relationship between
xwayland and different compositors is expected to be.

It may be better to ask the Qt folks.  #qt-labs on irc.freenode.net in
particular.  I'm not sure which mailing list is most appropriate.  

> Am I asking the right questions?

They seem appropriate.

> Please help me understand the vision as it relates to future Qt and
> past X both running on Wayland.
> Respectfully

Qt apps don't even know which backend they're using, it's all nice and
magical.  And last time I tested, the Qt5 apps worked with the weston
compositor, but the Qt5 demo wayland compositors crashed, but were expected
to work with wayland apps.  I suspect xwayland stuff hasn't been handled
with the Qt compositors.

There's some info here:  http://wayland.freedesktop.org/qt5.html

The build instructions are old, you'll at least need a couple more modules
to build it.  The porting section may be useful to you.  

If you find better info, please report back.

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