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authorPekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>2012-09-13 13:46:27 +0300
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man: weston --xserver has been replaced
The generic module loading must be used now to load xserver.so. Option --xserver was removed by a6813d28876423b388cce3ff6d7edab7b9de0f20. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
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-.TH WESTON 1 "2012-08-29" "Weston __version__"
+.TH WESTON 1 "2012-09-13" "Weston __version__"
.SH NAME
weston \- the reference Wayland server
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -22,11 +22,8 @@ under another Wayland server), it should be done with the command
.B weston-launch
to set up proper privileged access to devices.
-Weston also supports X clients by XWayland. XWayland requires a special
-X.org server to be installed. This X server will connect to a Wayland
-server as a Wayland client, and X clients will connect to the X server.
-XWayland provides backwards compatibility to X applications in a Wayland
-stack.
+Weston also supports X clients via
+.BR XWayland ", see below."
.
.\" ***************************************************************
.SH BACKENDS
@@ -70,6 +67,21 @@ and the special client
which provides the basic user interface.
.
.\" ***************************************************************
+.SH XWAYLAND
+XWayland requires a special X.org server to be installed. This X server will
+connect to a Wayland server as a Wayland client, and X clients will connect to
+the X server. XWayland provides backwards compatibility to X applications in a
+Wayland stack.
+
+XWayland is activated by instructing
+.BR weston " to load " xwayland.so " module, see " EXAMPLES .
+Weston starts listening on a new X display socket, and exports it in the
+environment variable
+.BR DISPLAY .
+When the first X client connects, Weston launches a special X server as a
+Wayland client to handle the X client and all future X clients.
+.
+.\" ***************************************************************
.SH OPTIONS
.
.SS Weston core options:
@@ -113,14 +125,6 @@ Weston will export
.B WAYLAND_DISPLAY
with this value in the environment for all child processes to allow them to
connect to the right server automatically.
-.TP
-.B \-\-xserver
-Activate XWayland. Weston starts listening on a new X display socket, and
-exports it in the environment variable
-.BR DISPLAY .
-When the first X client connects, Weston launches a special X server as a
-Wayland client to handle the X client and all future X clients.
-.
.SS DRM backend options:
.TP
\fB\-\-connector\fR=\fIconnectorid\fR
@@ -220,8 +224,10 @@ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
.
.\" ***************************************************************
.SH EXAMPLES
-.IP "Launch Weston with the DRM backend, directly on a VT"
+.IP "Launch Weston with the DRM backend on a VT"
weston-launch
+.IP "Launch Weston with the DRM backend and XWayland support"
+weston-launch -- --modules=xwayland.so
.IP "Launch Weston (wayland-1) nested in another Weston instance (wayland-0)"
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 weston -Swayland-1
.IP "From an X terminal, launch Weston with the x11 backend"