Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Pekka,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 15:02, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:10:05 +0100
> Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  * xwayland-run, to spawn an X11 client within its own dedicated Xwayland
> > rootful instance,
>
> wouldn't this one be at home in the xserver repository?
>

Yes, xwayland-run might be better suited in the xorg space. But the 3
utilities share the same modules in Python, so splitting them isn't
convenient.

>  * wlheadless-run to run a Wayland client on a set of supported Wayland
> > headless compositors,
>
> I think this would belong fine in wayland-utils except for needing
> per-compositor code in it. Having tools that depend on compositor
> specifics live in wayland-utils would need a consensus agreement. I
> have nothing against that, but I also don't maintain wayland-utils.
>

The whole purpose of that is precisely to hide the  differences between the
compositors, so that requires per-compositor modules.

Alternatively, maybe each compositor project should consider shipping a
> short-cut command for a headless instance? Though that does make
> xwfb-run just eat the differences instead.
>
> >  * xwfb-run, a combination of the two other tools above to be used as a
> > direct replacement for xvfb-run specifically.
>
> xserver repository?
>

Yeah, but even more than xwayland-run, wlhealess-run and xwfb-run share a
lot of the same code.

[…]
>
> When I was asking to have color-and-hdr documentation repository under
> any common gitlab group instead of my personal namespace, the answer
> was that it should first become a true community project that won't die
> as soon as I walk away from it.
>
> Will be interesting to see how much attention your scripts gain.
>

Good point indeed, I guess this can stay in my gitlab space in the meantime.

And that shouldn't stop anyone downstream from packaging it.

Cheers
Olivier
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