Xwayland

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:01:39 +0300
Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 12:09:19 -0400
> Jd Lyons <lyons_dj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > > On Sep 6, 2019, at 3:14 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 11:36:50 -0400
> > > Jd Lyons <lyons_dj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >     
> > >> On Sep 5, 2019, at 3:55 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:  
> 
> > >>> If you redirect weston's both stdout and stderr to a file, you might
> > >>> catch more messages from Xwayland which would hopefully shed more light
> > >>> to why it seems to crash.
> > >>>     
> > >> 
> > >> How may I go about redirecting that to a file?    
> > > 
> > > If you're using bash as your shell, then to whatever command you use to
> > > start Weston, append: &> mylog.txt
> > > 
> > > You can also drop the '--log' weston option, so Weston logs go into the
> > > same file too. Unfortunately '--log' does not capture the stdout/stderr
> > > of other programs, that's why this manual fiddling is necessary.
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> > Doesn’t seem to offer much more than the log option:  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> indeed, that's unfortunate.

...

> If you want, you could file an issue at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues explaining that on
> your particular platform, Xwayland exits early with error code 4. That
> way it won't be forgotten, and maybe a slightly more focused audience
> will see it.

Oh, and a particularly important detail is repeating what you told me
in a private email:

> Yes, big-endian PowerMac G5 Quad with 970MP and Debian Bullseye/Sid.

> > Does Xorg work by any chance?
> >   
> Yes works just fine, and when I launch weston from within X, xwayland
> works just fine, launches all the X apps and they render correct.
> 
> Xwayland just doesn’t work when I use weston-launch with or without
> Xorg running. My goal is to be able to only use X11 apps from within
> Weston, without Xorg running or installed, other than Xwayland.

and that you're using Nouveau.


Thanks,
pq
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