Wayland: Revision history

7 February 2026

• curprev 08:5408:54, 7 February 2026‎ Cubi talk contribs‎ m 6,147 bytes +22‎ fixing it, previous one i edited in threw xdg missing errors for pipewire, THIS should be fine now as i just tested as it works in pipewire.
• curprev 06:4006:40, 7 February 2026‎ Cubi talk contribs‎ m 6,125 bytes +68‎ Current method that's listed on the page will throw a lack of permission error, this method actually works as I just tested on a fresh system just now.

30 December 2025

• curprev 07:0507:05, 30 December 2025‎ John3-16 talk contribs‎ 6,057 bytes +901‎ 1. Elaborated on XWayland: security risks, testing performance without it, removing XWayland; 2. Style/grammar amendments.

29 December 2025

• curprev 02:1102:11, 29 December 2025‎ John3-16 talk contribs‎ 5,156 bytes +1,166‎ Added stubs for XWayland and Wayback.

13 December 2025

• curprev 16:3816:38, 13 December 2025‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 3,990 bytes +11‎ →‎See also: Backlink to Kodi

5 December 2025

• curprev 16:1316:13, 5 December 2025‎ Prabuanand talk contribs‎ 3,979 bytes −307‎ moved the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR path information to their respective sections

4 December 2025

• curprev 06:1706:17, 4 December 2025‎ John3-16 talk contribs‎ 4,286 bytes +713‎ 1. →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: XDG specifications link added; also a Note that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may be found as "/tmp/$(id -u)-runtime-dir" or similar, but "/run/user/$(id -u)" keeps more in line with other facilities, as described. 2. →‎Creating and exporting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR manually: - modified XDG_RUNTIME_DIR path accordingly. See discussion.

6 November 2025

• curprev 09:1809:18, 6 November 2025‎ Bezzumnbiu talk contribs‎ m 3,573 bytes +1‎ Fix mistake

22 October 2025

• curprev 05:2005:20, 22 October 2025‎ Prabuanand talk contribs‎ 3,572 bytes +309‎ added error message to Troubleshooting section

4 June 2025

• curprev 20:5720:57, 4 June 2025‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 3,263 bytes +18‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: normalise titles
• curprev 20:5520:55, 4 June 2025‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 3,245 bytes −14‎ →‎elogind: wording
• curprev 20:5520:55, 4 June 2025‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 3,259 bytes −8‎ →‎elogind: properly capitalise elogind
• curprev 20:5420:54, 4 June 2025‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 3,267 bytes −109‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: reorganise elogind subsection to be less confusing

11 April 2025

• curprev 03:2703:27, 11 April 2025‎ Prabuanand talk contribs‎ 3,376 bytes −69‎ created heading and moved the content to Compositors

9 January 2025

• curprev 05:4405:44, 9 January 2025‎ Prabuanand talk contribs‎ 3,445 bytes +183‎ rearranged general information related to wayland

21 December 2024

• curprev 05:3205:32, 21 December 2024‎ Prabuanand talk contribs‎ 3,262 bytes +776‎ added information about mkrundir, formatted the page with headings

22 November 2024

• curprev 06:3406:34, 22 November 2024‎ Prabuanand talk contribs‎ 2,486 bytes +336‎ Added reference to Seat manager and setup-wayland-base script

18 May 2024

• curprev 19:0819:08, 18 May 2024‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 2,150 bytes +147‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: Add reference to mkrundir

10 January 2024

• curprev 06:5706:57, 10 January 2024‎ Zcrayfish talk contribs‎ m 2,003 bytes −9‎ Fixed KDE link

14 November 2023

• curprev 12:5012:50, 14 November 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 2,012 bytes +12‎ →‎Configuring XDG_RUNTIME_DIR manually: re-add "-runtime-dir" suffix to prevent naming conflicts
• curprev 07:0907:09, 14 November 2023‎ Encode talk contribs‎ m 2,000 bytes −75‎ Simplify XDG_RUNTIME_DIR code

10 November 2023

• curprev 03:0103:01, 10 November 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 2,075 bytes −150‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: Remove mkrundir (too experimental still)

6 November 2023

• curprev 23:2023:20, 6 November 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 2,225 bytes +21‎ add category wayland
• curprev 22:0022:00, 6 November 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 2,204 bytes +381‎ Extend XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; mention mkrundir
• curprev 21:5521:55, 6 November 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 1,823 bytes +352‎ Add references to some compositors.

16 September 2023

• curprev 21:2121:21, 16 September 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 1,471 bytes −34‎ link to pam-rundir package instead of repository

26 July 2023

• curprev 13:4713:47, 26 July 2023‎ Zcrayfish talk contribs‎ m 1,505 bytes 0‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: Changed case of `Elogind' to canonical `elogind'.

3 July 2023

• curprev 09:1909:19, 3 July 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 1,505 bytes +20‎ use path and cat template

19 June 2023

• curprev 11:1211:12, 19 June 2023‎ Psykose talk contribs‎ 1,485 bytes −89‎ remove wrong information (there are no commented lines in /etc/pam.d/base-session, lines starting with - are not comments.)

16 June 2023

• curprev 20:5220:52, 16 June 2023‎ Sertonix talk contribs‎ 1,574 bytes +122‎ mention PAM requirement for pam_rundir

28 January 2023

• curprev 12:4712:47, 28 January 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ m 1,452 bytes −2‎ Fix mangling done by editor.
• curprev 12:4612:46, 28 January 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 1,454 bytes +244‎ Mention pam_rundir and reword things a bit

8 January 2023

• curprev 13:3113:31, 8 January 2023‎ Psykose talk contribs‎ m 1,210 bytes +2‎ minor grammar

7 January 2023

• curprev 02:3502:35, 7 January 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 1,208 bytes +76‎ Mentions that this should only be done when not using PAM

6 January 2023

• curprev 23:2223:22, 6 January 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 1,132 bytes +145‎ Add links to arch and gentoo wikis (these contain A LOT of relevant information)
• curprev 23:2023:20, 6 January 2023‎ WhyNotHugo talk contribs‎ 987 bytes +403‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: Extend instructions for defining this manually

2 January 2023

• curprev 18:1118:11, 2 January 2023‎ DTB talk contribs‎ 584 bytes −453‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: Remove terrible hacky shim that has the user config XDG_RUNTIME_DIR themself. This lead to a very confused beginner seeking help for various errors on login in a Discord server I follow.

26 February 2019

• curprev 11:3511:35, 26 February 2019‎ Theothermatt talk contribs‎ 1,037 bytes +279‎ No edit summary

9 December 2018

• curprev 18:4818:48, 9 December 2018‎ Astrawso talk contribs‎ m 758 bytes +119‎ No edit summary

21 September 2017

• curprev 04:0804:08, 21 September 2017‎ John3-16 talk contribs‎ m 639 bytes +23‎ Categorized: Desktop

16 March 2017

• curprev 06:5306:53, 16 March 2017‎ Pickfire talk contribs‎ m 616 bytes −2‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: Fix style
• curprev 06:5306:53, 16 March 2017‎ Pickfire talk contribs‎ m 618 bytes −1‎ Make reading flow better
• curprev 06:5206:52, 16 March 2017‎ Pickfire talk contribs‎ m 619 bytes −18‎ →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: Align script

30 January 2017

• curprev 09:4809:48, 30 January 2017‎ Ollieparanoid talk contribs‎ 637 bytes +637‎ Created page with "Wayland is a new display protocol, that aims to replace X11. == XDG_RUNTIME_DIR == Weston and other compositors require the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable to be set. Simply save t..."