Xwayland location
Bill Spitzak
spitzak at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 22:21:31 PDT 2015
It seems like /usr/bin/Xwayland is hard-coded into xwayland.so. This
makes it not run local installed versions of Xwayland. I could not get X
programs to work under wayland without doing "sudo ln -s
~/install/bin/Xwayland /usr/bin".
I noticed this because I had no /usr/bin/Xwayland, but I am concerned
that if it really is installed, a developer will not realize they are
not running their locally installed copy.
There is a configure option --with-xserver-path but it would help if
--prefix worked as a default (ie $prefix/bin/Xwayland).
Another possible solution is to use an environment variable ($XWAYLAND
maybe?) as the name of the program.
Maybe a better question is why the path is hard-coded, rather than it
searching the path for this?
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