On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 20:33:48 +0000 "Hoosier, Matt" <matt.hoos...@garmin.com> wrote:
> Tactical question: I somehow missed until this point that the remote > and pipewire plugins will only run if the DRM backend is being used. > > But the DRM backend *really* doesn't want to start nowadays unless > you're running on a system with seatd and/or logind available. > Toolbox [1] is the de facto way to develop on bleeding edge copies of > components these days. But it logind and seatd aren't exposed into it. > > How do Weston people interactively develop on the Weston DRM backend > nowadays? > > [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolbox/ Hi Matt, I'm doing it old-school on my workstation, without any containers. What dependencies my distribution does not provide, I build and install manually into a prefix under $HOME: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/04/10/clean-reliable-setup-for-dependency-installation/ The "clean and reliable" is probably outdated in this era of containers... There is also 'meson devenv', but since I need multiple manually built projects in the same session, I haven't really looked into how to make that work for me. https://mesonbuild.com/Commands.html#devenv When launching Weston, I have two different cases. Both need my prefix installed environment as in the blog post. - When I want to run on the same gfx card as my desktop, I VT-switch to a text mode login, log in, enter the environment, and simply run 'weston'. This gets input and output devices from logind. - When I want to run on my dedicated testing gfx card (no desktop there), I do it from a terminal window from my normal desktop: enter the environment, and run 'SEATD_VTBOUND=0 weston -Bdrm-backend.so --seat=seat-insecure -i0'. This requires prior setup: https://wayland.pages.freedesktop.org/weston/toc/running-weston.html#running-weston-on-a-different-seat-on-a-stand-alone-back-end It uses libseat's built-in backend, so no seatd and no logind. The prior setup gives my user direct access to the necessary device nodes. I have a separate monitor, keyboard and mouse reserved for this. Thanks, pq
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