How can I start wayland at boot?

[Jasper St. Pierre]

Recent gdm has support for Wayland sessions. You'll have to write the
session file yourself if you want to launch weston, though.

Something like this should work.

# mkdir -p /usr/share/wayland-sessions/
# echo <<<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Weston
Exec=weston-launch -- weston
Type=Application
EOF > /usr/share/wayland-sessions/weston.desktop


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:09:47 +0100
> Michael Johnson <mikeyj001 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your reply Pekka,
> >
> > I wasn't expecting any display managers to be ready for wayland/weston
> yet, but I was just hoping that I could create a service/daemon so that it
> would start as soon as I logged in, and not have any issues when logging in
> to multiple terminals.  For that I guess I'd need to know what dependencies
> need to be started first.  I have no clue on that.
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> please use reply-to-all, and do not top-post.
>
> Oh, you want it to go graphical after logging in, not at boot.
> Well, any personal start-up script that runs weston-launch if it's
> not already running should be enough. That's not really a service,
> you can do that with any shell login scripts. There are no
> additional dependencies for Weston, but other desktop environments
> have other ways to start them manually, with all the needed daemons.
>
> There is no such thing as a "Wayland service" or a daemon.
>
> So, it depends on what compositor/DE you choose. I guess each one
> of them has their own way to pick the Wayland flavour. I don't
> know if there is anything we can say in general.
>
> Or are you referring to systemd user sessions?
>
> Have you tried running your DE of choice manually yet? I assume the
> very same command would work from a login script with some checks
> whether it is running already.
>
>
> Thanks,
> pq
>
>
> > Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 11:46:54 +0100
> > Michael Johnson <mikeyj001 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a way to start wayland as a service?  I haven't seen any info
> on this.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > first you need to pick the compositor you want, since Wayland
> > is not a runnable program. The service you are likely looking for
> > is a display/login manager.
> >
> > I think running would be done by using some display manager, but I
> > have never set that up, and I don't know what kind of support
> > exists at this time, nor which display manager you should look at.
> >
> > That would probably the proper way, but there are also ways to hack
> > it, e.g. I have once done an auto-login hack that spawned Weston
> > on a new VT on Raspberry Pi, straight to logged-in desktop.
> >
> > Depends on what you are looking for.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > pq
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  Jasper
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