[PATCH weston] man: weston --xserver has been replaced
Kristian Høgsberg
hoegsberg at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 08:34:33 PDT 2012
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:46:27PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> The generic module loading must be used now to load xserver.so.
> Option --xserver was removed by
> a6813d28876423b388cce3ff6d7edab7b9de0f20.
Much better, thanks... I was wondering if we should special case the
shell plugin and load it last. Or maybe we need to have two module
loading points like you say, an init-time and a up-and-running time...
Kristian
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>
> ---
> man/weston.man | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/weston.man b/man/weston.man
> index 7b7ae43..7667076 100644
> --- a/man/weston.man
> +++ b/man/weston.man
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -.TH WESTON 1 "2012-08-29" "Weston __version__"
> +.TH WESTON 1 "2012-09-13" "Weston __version__"
> .SH NAME
> weston \- the reference Wayland server
> .SH SYNOPSIS
> @@ -22,11 +22,8 @@ under another Wayland server), it should be done with the command
> .B weston-launch
> to set up proper privileged access to devices.
>
> -Weston also supports X clients by XWayland. XWayland requires a special
> -X.org server to be installed. This X server will connect to a Wayland
> -server as a Wayland client, and X clients will connect to the X server.
> -XWayland provides backwards compatibility to X applications in a Wayland
> -stack.
> +Weston also supports X clients via
> +.BR XWayland ", see below."
> .
> .\" ***************************************************************
> .SH BACKENDS
> @@ -70,6 +67,21 @@ and the special client
> which provides the basic user interface.
> .
> .\" ***************************************************************
> +.SH XWAYLAND
> +XWayland requires a special X.org server to be installed. This X server will
> +connect to a Wayland server as a Wayland client, and X clients will connect to
> +the X server. XWayland provides backwards compatibility to X applications in a
> +Wayland stack.
> +
> +XWayland is activated by instructing
> +.BR weston " to load " xwayland.so " module, see " EXAMPLES .
> +Weston starts listening on a new X display socket, and exports it in the
> +environment variable
> +.BR DISPLAY .
> +When the first X client connects, Weston launches a special X server as a
> +Wayland client to handle the X client and all future X clients.
> +.
> +.\" ***************************************************************
> .SH OPTIONS
> .
> .SS Weston core options:
> @@ -113,14 +125,6 @@ Weston will export
> .B WAYLAND_DISPLAY
> with this value in the environment for all child processes to allow them to
> connect to the right server automatically.
> -.TP
> -.B \-\-xserver
> -Activate XWayland. Weston starts listening on a new X display socket, and
> -exports it in the environment variable
> -.BR DISPLAY .
> -When the first X client connects, Weston launches a special X server as a
> -Wayland client to handle the X client and all future X clients.
> -.
> .SS DRM backend options:
> .TP
> \fB\-\-connector\fR=\fIconnectorid\fR
> @@ -220,8 +224,10 @@ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
> .
> .\" ***************************************************************
> .SH EXAMPLES
> -.IP "Launch Weston with the DRM backend, directly on a VT"
> +.IP "Launch Weston with the DRM backend on a VT"
> weston-launch
> +.IP "Launch Weston with the DRM backend and XWayland support"
> +weston-launch -- --modules=xwayland.so
> .IP "Launch Weston (wayland-1) nested in another Weston instance (wayland-0)"
> WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 weston -Swayland-1
> .IP "From an X terminal, launch Weston with the x11 backend"
> --
> 1.7.8.6
>
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