NAME

       Xwayland - an X server for running X clients under Wayland.

SYNOPSIS

       Xwayland [option ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Xwayland is an X server and a Wayland client. It plays the role of a proxy between legacy X clients which
       do not support the Wayland protocols and the Wayland server.

       Usually,  Xwayland  is  spawned  automatically  by the Wayland server and runs rootless so that X clients
       integrate seamlessly with the rest of the Wayland desktop. It is however possible for a  user  to  launch
       Xwayland non-rootless, mainly for testing purposes.

       Like  all  of the X servers, Xwayland accepts the command line options described in the Xserver(7) manual
       page.  The following additional arguments are supported as well.

       -eglstream
               Use EGLStream backend for NVidia GPUs. If Xwayland was  compiled  with  EGLStream  support,  this
               option  will  instruct  Xwayland  to  try that backend first, then fallback to the GBM backend if
               EGLStream is not supported by the Wayland server. Without this option,  Xwayland  tries  the  GBM
               backend first, and fallback to EGLStream if GBM is not usable.

       -initfd fd
               Add  the  given  fd as a listen socket for initialization of X clients.  This options is aimed at
               Wayland servers which run Xwayland on-demand, to be able to spawn specific X clients  which  need
               to complete before other regular X clients can connect to Xwayland, like xrdb.

       -listen fd
               deprecated, use -listenfd instead.

       -listenfd fd
               Add  given  fd as a listen socket. This option is used by the Wayland server to pass Xwayland the
               socket where X clients connect.

       -noTouchPointerEmulation
               Disable touch pointer emulation. This allows the Wayland compositor to implement its own  pointer
               emulation mechanism for X11 clients that don't support touch input.

       -rootless
               Run  Xwayland  rootless, so that X clients integrate seamlessly with Wayland clients in a Wayland
               desktop. That requires the Wayland server to be an X window manager as well.

       -shm    Force the shared memory backend instead of glamor (if  available)  for  passing  buffers  to  the
               Wayland server.

       -verbose [n]
               Sets  the verbosity level for information printed on stderr.  If the n value isn't supplied, each
               occurrence of this option increments the verbosity level.  When the  n  value  is  supplied,  the
               verbosity level is set to that value.  The default verbosity level is 0.

       -version
               Show the server version and exit.

       -wm fd  This  option is used by the Wayland server to pass Xwayland the socket where the X window manager
               client connects, when Xwayland is running with -rootless.

ENVIRONMENT

       WAYLAND_DISPLAY
               the name of the display of the Wayland server.

       XWAYLAND_NO_GLAMOR
               disable glamor and DRI3 support in Xwayland, for testing purposes.

SEE ALSO

       General information: X(7)

X Version 11                                   xorg-server 22.1.1                                    XWAYLAND(1)