xserver has a -conf argument you can use to point it at a different xorg.conf. Might be useful if weston / weston-launch had an ability to pass this argument to xserver.
An old post of mine, fighting with this before I was having xserver launched by weston: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-March/002768.html On 08/31, Bill Spitzak wrote: > (sorry for duplicate I forgot to do reply-all) > > Yes the reason I need an xorg.conf is that I need the wlshm driver. > According to the documentation the other drivers work automatically, > so if it is possible to detect this then there should be no need for > a file. > > However this does not fix the problem this patch is addressing. Even > if *no* xorg.conf file is needed, it is impossible to tell xwayland > to not use an existing xorg.conf file, such as one needed to run > legacy X on the same machine. The text in this then screws up > xwayland and it does not run. > > An alternative to my patch is to change it to *never* read the > config file. However this seems unsafe, for instance currenlty the > wlshm driver cannot be made to work. Also even if all the > driver/screen problems are fixed, it appears xorg.conf files are > needed to fix events for Xlib programs. In one machine I have this > is the only way to get two different mice to have different button > assignments. > > Tiago Vignatti wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On 08/30/2012 07:23 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >>From: Bill Spitzak <[email protected]> > >> > >>This allows X applications to be run on wayland without having to > >>delete an xorg.conf file that is required to run the normal X server. > > > >Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason I'm seeing for > >having a separate config file on Xwayland is to set a different > >video driver, in particular the wlshm. > > > >In that case a reasonable solution is to make Xwayland guess > >whether a fallback is needed and automatically sets it internally. > >We discussed awhile ago it and maybe you want to enhance the patch > >I started: > >http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-May/003320.html > > > >let me know if you need some help. > > > > Tiago > >_______________________________________________ > >wayland-devel mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > -- "...pain is a fundamental human experience..." - http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=115 http://www.ChaosReigns.com _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
