XWAYLAND(1) General Commands Manual XWAYLAND(1)
NAME
Xwayland - an X server for running X clients under Wayland.
SYNOPSIS
Xwayland [option ...]
DESCRIPTION
Xwayland is an X server and a Wayland client. It plays the role of a
proxy between legacy X clients which do not support the Wayland proto-
cols and the Wayland server.
Usually, Xwayland is spawned automatically by the Wayland server and
runs rootless so that X clients integrate seamlessly with the rest of
the Wayland desktop. It is however possible for a user to launch Xway-
land non-rootless, mainly for testing purposes.
Like all of the X servers, Xwayland accepts the command line options
described in the Xserver(7) manual page. The following additional ar-
guments are supported as well.
-eglstream
Use EGLStream backend for NVidia GPUs. If Xwayland was compiled
with EGLStream support, this option will instruct Xwayland to
try that backend first, then fallback to the GBM backend if
EGLStream is not supported by the Wayland server. Without this
option, Xwayland tries the GBM backend first, and fallback to
EGLStream if GBM is not usable.
-initfd fd
Add the given fd as a listen socket for initialization of X
clients. This options is aimed at Wayland servers which run
Xwayland on-demand, to be able to spawn specific X clients
which need to complete before other regular X clients can con-
nect to Xwayland, like xrdb.
-listen fd
deprecated, use -listenfd instead.
-listenfd fd
Add given fd as a listen socket. This option is used by the
Wayland server to pass Xwayland the socket where X clients con-
nect.
-noTouchPointerEmulation
Disable touch pointer emulation. This allows the Wayland com-
positor to implement its own pointer emulation mechanism for
X11 clients that don't support touch input.
-rootless
Run Xwayland rootless, so that X clients integrate seamlessly
with Wayland clients in a Wayland desktop. That requires the
Wayland server to be an X window manager as well.
-shm Force the shared memory backend instead of glamor (if avail-
able) for passing buffers to the Wayland server.
-verbose [n]
Sets the verbosity level for information printed on stderr. If
the n value isn't supplied, each occurrence of this option in-
crements the verbosity level. When the n value is supplied,
the verbosity level is set to that value. The default ver-
bosity level is 0.
-version
Show the server version and exit.
-wm fd This option is used by the Wayland server to pass Xwayland the
socket where the X window manager client connects, when Xway-
land is running with -rootless.
ENVIRONMENT
WAYLAND_DISPLAY
the name of the display of the Wayland server.
XWAYLAND_NO_GLAMOR
disable glamor and DRI3 support in Xwayland, for testing pur-
poses.
SEE ALSO
General information: X(7)
X Version 11 xorg-server 22.1.9 XWAYLAND(1)
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