[PATCH] Wayland X server uses xwayand.conf instead of xorg.conf

[Bill Spitzak]

On 08/31/2012 05:35 AM, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 08/30/2012 07:23 AM, spitzak at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>
>>
>> This allows X applications to be run on wayland without having to
>> delete an xorg.conf file that is required to run the normal X server.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason I'm seeing for
> having a separate config file on Xwayland is to set a different video
> driver, in particular the wlshm.
>
> In that case a reasonable solution is to make Xwayland guess whether a
> fallback is needed and automatically sets it internally. We discussed
> awhile ago it and maybe you want to enhance the patch I started:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-May/003320.html
>
> let me know if you need some help.
>
>            Tiago

The patch in the above post (adding wlshm to matches in 
xf86AutoConfig.c) fixes xserver for me. Along with my patch so it does 
not see old xorg.conf files, it allows xwayland to work without any 
configuration on my machine.

However I really have no idea if this patch breaks xserver on other 
machines, for instance by using shm when egl would work. Just want to 
back up the idea.

Certainly xserver should run without any configuration files. If it 
needs information that cannot be derived from wayland then there is 
something wrong with wayland.

Note that unless something is done about the name, it is impossible to 
run wayland with "no" configuration file. It will find an old xorg.conf 
file and try to use that and crash. Obviously the user can be told to 
clean off the old xorg.conf files but this is not practical if the user 
wants to still run X.