Weston

Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, as well as a useful environment in and of itself.

Out of the box, Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, industrial, kiosks, set-top boxes and TVs.

• Internet connectivity, unless the packages have been pre-fetched into a local cache.
• A non-root user account.
• The community repository must be enabled.
• Set up eudev.
• Install and configure D-Bus. without D-Bus icons and keyboard shortcuts may be missing.
• Install appropriate Graphics driver drivers for your hardware. Without graphics drivers, errors are likely to occur.

The setup-wayland-base script installs and enables elogind as seat manager, enables community repository and enables eudev automatically as these are required for Wayland to work.

Installation

Steps to install Weston

• Install weston and necessary dependencies:

# apk add weston weston-backend-drm seatd weston-backend-wayland weston-shell-desktop weston-terminal font-dejavu

Configuration

Set up eudev

Setting up eudev on a desktop system is recommended in Alpine Linux. Without a fully functional device manager users will not be able to connect to input devices. The alpine-conf package provides setup-devd script to easily install and setup device managers.

Setup eudev.

# setup-devd udev

For more details and other options see eudev.

Setup up a seat manager

Wayland compositors need raw access to input and output devices. This is mediated by a seat manager.

Configure either seatd or elogind as both are supported. However using both may lead to conflicts.

If seatd is used, Set up XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

Starting weston

You can launch weston by issuing the command sway from TTY.

$ weston

See also

Weston