Enable XWayland

XWayland lets X11 applications run in the Wayland display environment.

Connect to the target through SSH and run target commands from the root shell. For instructions, see Sign in using SSH.

Stop Weston and its socket before starting the XWayland session:

systemctl stop weston.socket weston.service

In the same target SSH session, set the runtime directory for the current user:

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)

Create the directory if it does not exist:

mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

Start Weston with XWayland support:

weston --continue-without-input --idle-time=0 --backend=drm-backend.so --xwayland

The command runs in the foreground. Keep the SSH session open while using Weston. If startup fails, review the error in the terminal before retrying.

Confirm that the Weston flower pattern appears on the connected display, as shown below.

Figure: Weston flower pattern