*Wayland support in Enlightenment* Running Enlightenment as a Wayland compositor is not considered "safe" for everyday desktop use, though it is functional enough to test or use in specialized environments. A list of known issues can be found at the bottom of this file. Requirements: ------------- Aside from the normal requirements that Enlightenment needs, there are a few things to note in order to get Enlightenment to build with Wayland support. Firstly, you MUST have EFL built with the following options: --enable-drm --enable-gl-drm (for hardware acceleration) --enable-wayland --enable-systemd --enable-elput Note that the drm engine will not be functional unless the target system has libsystemd-login installed. This Readme does not address the dependencies needed to enable Wayland in EFL. If you require any information for that, please see: https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/wayland/ If you would like support for EGL in Wayland, then also build EFL with: --enable-egl --with-opengl=es The above options can be enabled for EFL without any adverse effects to existing applications. Compiling: ------------- In order for Enlightenment to be compiled as Wayland compositor you will need to pass an option to the configure stage of Enlightenment: -Dwayland=true At this stage, you should have EFL properly built, and Enlightenment properly built. Let's move on to running it... Usage: ------------- Hopefully at this stage you have successfully built EFL and Enlightenment in preparation for a Wayland-supported setup. Congratulations!! Now, let's get it running... Enlightenment, when compiled with Wayland support and started from a tty, will automatically attempt to load the wl_drm output module and start a Wayland session. Simply start as usual: enlightenment_start If you have a separate configuration profile that you would like to use, you can tell Enlightenment to use that when you start it: enlightenment_start -profile To run a wayland session inside x11, export E_WL_FORCE=x11 before starting enlightenment. Known Issues ------------- * Internal window (eg. filemanager), DnD is not currently functional - Requires various improvements * Restarting Enlightenment kills some applications - Requires upstream external protocol support, XWayland improvements * XWayland clients do not smoothly resize - Requires upstream XWayland improvements * There are not more than 4 keyboard layouts possible - Requires libxkbcommon changes - https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/37