Xwayland - an X server for running X clients under Wayland.
Xwayland is an X server and a Wayland client. It plays the
role of a proxy between legacy X clients which do not support the Wayland
protocols and the Wayland server.
Usually, Xwayland is spawned automatically by the Wayland
server and runs rootless so that X clients integrate seamlessly with the
rest of the Wayland desktop. It is however possible for a user to launch
Xwayland non-rootless, mainly for testing purposes.
Like all of the X servers, Xwayland accepts the command
line options described in the Xserver(7) manual page. The following
additional arguments are supported as well.
- -eglstream
- Use EGLStream backend for NVidia GPUs. If Xwayland was compiled
with EGLStream support, this option will instruct Xwayland to try
that backend first, then fallback to the GBM backend if EGLStream is not
supported by the Wayland server. Without this option, Xwayland
tries the GBM backend first, and fallback to EGLStream if GBM is not
usable.
- -initfd
fd
- Add the given fd as a listen socket for initialization of X
clients. This options is aimed at Wayland servers which run
Xwayland on-demand, to be able to spawn specific X clients which
need to complete before other regular X clients can connect to
Xwayland, like xrdb.
- -listen
fd
- deprecated, use -listenfd instead.
- -listenfd
fd
- Add given fd as a listen socket. This option is used by the Wayland
server to pass Xwayland the socket where X clients connect.
- -noTouchPointerEmulation
- Disable touch pointer emulation. This allows the Wayland compositor to
implement its own pointer emulation mechanism for X11 clients that don't
support touch input.
- -rootless
- Run Xwayland rootless, so that X clients integrate seamlessly with
Wayland clients in a Wayland desktop. That requires the Wayland server to
be an X window manager as well.
- -shm
- Force the shared memory backend instead of glamor (if available) for
passing buffers to the Wayland server.
- -verbose
[n]
- Sets the verbosity level for information printed on stderr. If the
n value isn't supplied, each occurrence of this option increments
the verbosity level. When the n value is supplied, the verbosity
level is set to that value. The default verbosity level is 0.
- -version
- Show the server version and exit.
- -wm fd
- This option is used by the Wayland server to pass Xwayland
the socket where the X window manager client connects, when
Xwayland is running with -rootless.
General information: X(7)