Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hi Pekka, On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 15:02, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:10:05 +0100 > Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > * xwayland-run, to spawn an X11 client within its own dedicated Xwayland > > rootful instance, > > wouldn't this one be at home in the xserver repository? > Yes, xwa

Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Simon Ser
On Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 at 10:35, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > I'd prefer this to be kept in your personal namespace: I'd prefer not to > > make > > this an official Wayland project. > > Well, that was quick! :) > > If I may, would it be possible to elaborate on the rationale behind y

Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:10:05 +0100 Olivier Fourdan wrote: > Hi all, > > In Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we ship a small shell script called > "xvfb-run" originating from Debian to launch an X11 client within Xvfb. > > With the future removal of Xorg and all related Xservers in RHEL [1],

Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 5:27 AM Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > Hi all, > > In Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we ship a small shell script called > "xvfb-run" originating from Debian to launch an X11 client within Xvfb. > > With the future removal of Xorg and all related Xservers in RHEL [1], ex

Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Martin Stransky
On 11/29/23 10:35, Olivier Fourdan wrote: Hi Simon, On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 10:16, Simon Ser wrote: I'd prefer this to be kept in your personal namespace: I'd prefer not to make this an official Wayland project. Well, that was quick! :) If I may, would it be possible to elaborate on the r

Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hi Simon, On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 10:16, Simon Ser wrote: > > I'd prefer this to be kept in your personal namespace: I'd prefer not to > make > this an official Wayland project. > > Well, that was quick! :) If I may, would it be possible to elaborate on the rationale behind your opinion, is that

Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Martin Stransky
On 11/29/23 10:10, Olivier Fourdan wrote: [...] So my question is, if there is any interest for such a project [4], should this be moved to the wayland namespace in gitlab (we could even change the name of the project), should that be added to the existing "wayland-utility" project that we have

Re: Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Simon Ser
On Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 at 10:10, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > So my question is, if there is any interest for such a project [4], should > this be moved to the wayland namespace in gitlab (we could even change the > name of the project), should that be added to the existing "wayland-utili

Introducing xwayland-run, a set of small utilities to run X11 and Wayland clients

2023-11-29 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hi all, In Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we ship a small shell script called "xvfb-run" originating from Debian to launch an X11 client within Xvfb. With the future removal of Xorg and all related Xservers in RHEL [1], except Xwayland, there was a need for a replacement utility that would