Bug 46629

Summary:	[bug] should weston set WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable for weston-desktop-shell (based on --socket argument)
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	nerdopolis1
Component:	weston	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description nerdopolis1 2012-02-25 17:19:43 UTC

The problem is right now that when you try to run weston nested under a main weston server, you have to set WAYLAND_DISPLAY for the nested display, and the --socket for the display name for the nested one.  After starting nested weston, weston-desktop-shell in the nested weston display has the WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable for the main display, which makes any programs launched from the nested shells icons appear in the main display instead of the nested one.

My thought is that weston should set WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable to what is specified to --socket to the child process.

Comment 1 Kristian Høgsberg 2012-07-31 18:55:56 UTC

Yup, makes sense.

commit 3df6384c3a6f3f56a16873b63fdbc731f2ccfadb
Author: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Date:   Tue Jul 31 14:54:48 2012 -0400

    compositor: Set WAYLAND_DISPLAY if we're given a --socket argument
    
    This lets us run multiple compositors (nested or on different VTs).
    
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46629

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