Latest revision as of 14:06, 27 April 2023

Running X11 applications on wayland backend via xwayland

Xwayland introduction / reference

# apt-get update
# apt-get install xwayland

Edit the /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini file and make sure it has the two highlighted params below:

[core]
# i.MX: Disable idle timeout
idle-time=0
#use-g2d=1
xwayland=true

[xwayland]
path=/usr/bin/Xwayland

# systemctl restart weston

We'll use Chromium as an example:
On Debian Buster Chromium only supports the X11 backend (chromium-ozone is not in the Debian Buster repository).

# apt-get install -y chromium
# export DISPLAY=:0
# /usr/bin/chromium --no-sandbox

You can safely ignore the warnings. The acceleration is provided using LLVMPIPE - no Vivante GPU integration is available.

Note:

While other X11 based application may work, not all X11 applications in the Debian repository are tested by Variscite.
Chromium built by Debian repo does not support Video Decoding acceleration.

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 = Installing Xwayland =
-  # apt-get update; apt-get install -y xwayland
+  # apt-get update
+ # apt-get install xwayland
 = Starting the Xwayland server =
@@ Line 28: / Line 29: @@
   # apt-get install -y chromium
   # export DISPLAY=:0
-  # /usr/bin/chromium --ignore-gpu-blacklist --no-sandbox
+  # /usr/bin/chromium --no-sandbox
 You can safely ignore the warnings. The acceleration is provided using LLVMPIPE - no Vivante GPU integration is available.<br>
 <br>
 '''Note:'''
 * While other X11 based application may work, not all X11 applications in the Debian repository are tested by Variscite.
+* Chromium built by Debian repo does not support Video Decoding acceleration.