[PATCH weston 2/2] man: mention logind for launching

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 09:53:15 UTC 2017


From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>

Logind has been long supported as means to launch Weston without
weston-launch. It's good to note it in the manual.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
---
 man/weston.man | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/weston.man b/man/weston.man
index face2298..d19c2d4b 100644
--- a/man/weston.man
+++ b/man/weston.man
@@ -20,9 +20,12 @@ shell.
 When weston is started as the first windowing system (i.e. not under X nor
 under another Wayland server), it should be done with the command
 .B weston-launch
-to set up proper privileged access to devices.
+to set up proper privileged access to devices. If your system supports
+the logind D-Bus API and the support has been built into weston as well,
+it is possible to start weston with just
+.BR weston .
 
-Weston also supports X clients via 
+Weston also supports X clients via
 .BR XWayland ", see below."
 .
 .\" ***************************************************************
@@ -106,7 +109,7 @@ Load
 .I backend.so
 instead of the default backend. The file is searched for in
 .IR "__weston_modules_dir__" ,
-or you can pass an absolute path. The default backend is 
+or you can pass an absolute path. The default backend is
 .I __weston_native_backend__
 unless the environment suggests otherwise, see
 .IR DISPLAY " and " WAYLAND_DISPLAY .
-- 
2.13.6



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