Weston

Installation

Steps to install Weston on Alpine 3.20

1. doas apk add weston weston-backend-drm seatd weston-backend-wayland weston-shell-desktop weston-terminal font-dejavu
2. doas rc-update add seatd
3. doas adduser $USER seat
4. doas setup-devd udev
5. ~/.profile add:

if [ -z "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/$(id -u)-runtime-dir"

mkdir -pm 0700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR fi

1. reboot
2. Start weston with: weston

References

https://github.com/crftbt/OpenSourcedMe/blob/main/alpine/weston.md