Author: Jude Nelson Date: To: Hendrik Boom CC: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:47:13PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 7/25/2015 9:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > >
> > >I've heard that wayland will require systemd.
> > >
> > >SteveT
> > >
> > >
> > I have to apologize, Steve.
> >
> > When I refer to "Wayland" I am referring to the Linux project, which
> > as far as I know does NOT have anything to do with systemd. It's
> > just easier to call it "Wayland" so everyone know what I am talking
> > about.
> >
> > Weston is the Linux implementation of Wayland. Wayland itself is
> > nothing more than a display protocol, which has nothing more to do
> > with systemd than X11 does.
>
> So is it Weston that does or does not involve systemd?
> And which is it, finally?
>
Weston does not require systemd, but it does offer optional integration
with logind. It will rely on XDG environment variables if logind is not
running.
Related, Weston depends on dbus by default. Unsurprisingly, the dbus
integration code was added by an individual who is both a core systemd
developer and core kdbus developer. However, it can be disabled at
compile-time.
Like T.J. said, X11 is to X.org just as Wayland is to Weston. Wayland does
not depend on systemd or dbus anymore than HTTP does.