On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:06:03 -0500
Jude Nelson <judecn@???> wrote:

> Not according to their documentation:
> * the weston launcher program (weston-launch) needs extra privileges
> to issue the KMS ioctl()s. It can do so via systemd, or you can make
> weston-launch setuid root.

Thank you Jude. That is *such* a relief. I already setuid root my X
executable so slitt can run it.

> * weston can use systemd to find the directory in which to put its
> control socket, or you can set the environment variable
> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in your shell before running it.

I love environment variables.

>
> Source: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html
>
> I still need to figure out whether or not it needs runtime linkage
> against systemd infrastructure, however. Fortunately, the Wayland
> developers standardized the wayland protocol separately from the
> implementation, so at worst we can fork weston or write our own
> compositor if systemd integration becomes too troublesome to work
> around.

Sounds good to me.

Thanks Jude!

SteveT

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