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