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*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:
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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
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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:
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In order for Enlightenment to be compiled as Wayland compositor you will need to
pass an option to the configure stage of Enlightenment:
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-Dwayland=true
At this stage, you should have EFL properly built, and Enlightenment
properly built. Let's move on to running it...
Usage:
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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 <my_profile>
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To run a wayland session inside x11, export E_WL_FORCE=x11 before starting
enlightenment.
Known Issues
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* Internal window (eg. filemanager), DnD is not currently functional
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- 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
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* There are not more than 4 keyboard layouts possible
- Requires libxkbcommon changes - https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/37