On 04/25/2014 10:38 PM, pplive wrote: > Dear all, > > I have installed ArchLinux on a virtual machine hosted by my > VirtualBox. The desktop I picked is enlightenment > > I have also installed wayland/weston by pacman. > > I tried to play with weston according to the following page: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wayland > > If I just run weston, I can create a window, and I can configure the > height/width of the window. > > However, when I tried "weston-launch", there is an error message > > "weston-launch must be run from a virtual terminal" > As the message says, it must be run from a VT (tty). Since you're using VBox, you won't be able to run it from VT with standard configuration. VBox doesn't have proper graphics stack for that. fbdev backend works though weston-launch -- --backend=fbdev-backend.so > When I tried "weston-flower", the error information is as follows: > "error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment. > failed to connect to Wayland display: NO such file or directory > failed to create display: No such file or directory" > No compositor (weston) running in the session you are starting weston-flower from? XDG_RUNTIME_DIR should be set by systemd at login. > Did I miss something? Can somebody provide me some hints? > > Thanks so much! > > Best regards, > Alex > -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
