Bug 49870

Summary:	weston-launch doesn't work under X
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Darxus <darxus>
Component:	weston	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Darxus 2012-05-13 07:57:46 UTC

When weston-launch is run under X, it uses the DRM backend (and when I just tried it, I ended up needing to reboot).  

It would be useful if weston-launch worked with the X backend because without root permissions, weston --xserver will fail to spawn an X server with "Unable to retrieve master".

Comment 1 Kristian Høgsberg 2012-05-14 08:39:13 UTC

weston-launch is not meant to work under X.  Or rather, under X, the expected behaviour is to switch to a new vt and launch weston on kms.  weston --xserver should work with the weston X backend without needing root priviledges.  If it doesn't, it's a bug.

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