[RFC PATCH xserver] xwayland: RFC Disable glamor with an env var?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Jonas,

> > > I would prefer leaning towards just making the compositors more
> > > considerate about their Xwayland configuration. I believe the global
> > > trend is to move towards the compositor having all the configurability
> > > in itself, and all the other components having a single source of
> > > configuration in the running system: the compositor. I would compare
> > > Xwayland to libinput here.
> > 
> > Yes, but that means that all compositors need to have this
> > "configurability", even though it's actually Xwayland that uses it.
> > 
> 
> For a compositor that supports respawning Xwayland, to be able to change
> the Xwayland configurations without restarting the actual compositor
> would still need this "configurability", as any user set environment
> variable will be static for the whole session.

Obviously, with a compositor able to survive respawning Xwayland, adapting the Xwayland command line options dynamically when it detects a crash in Xwayland, the use of environment variable is a lot less attractive.

But I am not aware of any compositor able to do that (and given how mutter is dependent on X even on Wayland, I would not expect such a mechanism to be available in gnome-shell any time soon).

Cheers,
Olivier