Monday, April 10, 2023

Wayland and weston

  • Wayland
    • see overview: Wayland Weston overview
    • Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, from wikipedia
    • Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, from weston github.


  • Weston
    • backends, from "man weston"
      • drm-backend.so: The DRM backend uses Linux KMS for output and evdev devices for input
      • wayland-backend.so: The  Wayland  backend  runs on another Wayland server, a different Weston instance
      • x11-backend.so: The X11 backend runs on an X server
      • rdp-backend.so: The  RDP backend runs in memory without the need of graphical hardware.
      • to run weston from wsl2, use wayland-backend.so.
      • to run weston for rdp connection, use rdp-backend.so
      • all for drm connector, see "/sys/class/drm"
    • modules/shell
      • all *.so are located at usr/lib/weston for modules and shell in weston.ini
    • weston terminal
  • scale: scale text for high DPI screen
    • GDK setting for GTK application from application level
      • export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
      • #To scale UI elements by an integer only factor
      • #GTK3/4 does not support fractional scaling currently, so fractional factors will be ignored
      • export GDK_SCALE=1
      • #GDK_DPI_SCALE can be used to scale text only
      • export GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.2
    • composition level
      • "[output]" on weston.ini, only work for drm and X11. set "scale=1.5".

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