[SOLVED] Wayland fails to execute

roboto · Last edited by roboto on Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:39 pm; edited 1 time in total

I compiled x11-base/xorg-server with wayland USE flag and this enabled on all other installed packages. I have xwayland enabled. I installed dev-libs/sway and typed /usr/bin/sway.

Then, this happened. SwayWM did nothing but print this error message:

mike155 · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:52 am Post subject:

1) You could turn on logging:

roboto · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 3:36 am Post subject:

The log gave me a bunch of unset variables. i.e. SWAY_CURSOR_THEME=(null)

Is there a guide out there telling me what to set these variables to?

The fatal error in the log shows:

Mr. T. · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2016 Posts: 477

I have the impression that the Gentoo community does not have the resource to help the mass.

Gentoo does not set the variable XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

Reference: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html - look at the section "Running Weston".

mike155 · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:59 pm Post subject:

If you don't know how to set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, look here for a code snippet: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Weston

I recommend to get Weston up and running before installing any other Wayland compositor. Weston is small, it's easy to install and configure, and it's fun. If Weston works, you can be sure that Wayland and your low level graphics drivers work. Then you can move on to the Wayland compositor and the desktop environment you want to install. If you get any errors, you can be sure that they are related to your Wayland compositor or your desktop environment - and not to Wayland or low level graphics drivers.

asturm · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:02 pm Post subject:

Wayland itself doesn't 'work'. It is *always* the compositor of your choice that may be better or worse. Now, of course you can check if your graphics stack is prepared for Wayland, but you can have that much cheaper: nvidia-drivers works not, everything else does.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

mike155 · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:55 pm Post subject:

roboto · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 4:31 pm Post subject:

SwayWM works now due to the building weston guide telling me to set the variable to a temporary directory in /tmp and giving it 0700 permissions.

Thank you all for your time.
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josephg · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:19 pm Post subject: