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== See also == | |||
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland Wayland - Arch Wiki] | |||
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland Wayland - Gentoo Wiki] | |||
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Revision as of 23:22, 6 January 2023
 A more thorough guide to installing, configuring, and running wayland on Alpine would be better. |
Wayland is a new display protocol that aims to replace X11.
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
As per the protocol spec, Wayland compositors require the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable to be set. A login manager such as Elogind can configure this and other Freedesktop.org environment variables automatically.
Generally it's inadvisable to configure XDG_* variables manually as this configuration may have errors or conflict with other utilities that do this automatically. That said, it is possible to configure XDG_RUNTIME_DIR adding the following snippet to shell init scripts (e.g.: ~/.profile):
if test -z "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"; then
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/$(id -u)-runtime-dir
if ! test -d "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"; then
mkdir "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
chmod 0700 "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
fi
fi