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.

       -decorate
               Add decorations to the Xwayland root window when running rootful.

               This option has no effect when Xwayland is built without libdecor support (optional).

               This option is not compatible with rootless mode (-rootless).

       -enable-ei-portal
               Enable support for the XDG portal for input emulation.

               A Wayland compositor running nested should not use that command line option with Xwayland.

               This option has no effect if the compositor  doesn't  support  the  relevant  XDG  portal  or  if
               Xwayland was not compiled with EI and OEFFIS support.

       -fullscreen
               Set the Xwayland window fullscreen when running rootful.

               This option is not compatible with rootless mode (-rootless).

       -geometry WxH
               Sets the geometry of the Xwayland window to WxH when running rootful.

               This option is not compatible with rootless mode (-rootless).

       -glamor  [gl|es|off]
               Use given rendering API for Glamor acceleration. Possible options are gl and es.  If Xwayland was
               compiled  with  Glamor  support, this option will instruct Xwayland to use only requested API for
               Glamor. If this set to off, effect is equal to -shm option.  Without this option and without -shm
               option, Xwayland tries the OpenGL rendering API first, and fallback to GL ES  if  GL  version  is
               less than 2.1.

               This option is not compatible with -shm option.

       -hidpi  Adjust to the scale of the outputs when running rootful in windowing mode.

               This option is not compatible with rootless mode (-rootless).

       -host-grab
               Disable host keyboard shorcuts and confine the pointer when running rootful.

               This  feature  relies on the protocol for inhibiting the compositor keyboard shortcuts and on the
               protocol for pointer locking and confinement and may have no effect if the Wayland compositor  in
               use does not support these protocols.

               Use the keys [CTRL]+[SHIFT] simultaneously to release the keyboard and pointer devices.

               This option is not compatible with rootless mode (-rootless).

       -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.

       -force-xrandr-emulation
               Force  additional  non-native modes to be exposed when viewporter is not supported by the Wayland
               compositor.

       -nokeymap
               Instructs Xwayland to ignore the keymap set by the Wayland compositor.

               By default, Xwayland (as any Wayland client) uses the keymap set by the Wayland compositor  using
               the standard Wayland protocol.

               This option is meant for some specific use cases where it may be desirable to let the X11 clients
               control  the  keymap  used  in Xwayland, ignoring the keymap specified by the Wayland compositor.
               -output name Specifies on which output Xwayland fullscreen rootful should be  placed.   The  name
               must match the name of an existing Wayland output (output names can be found using wayland-info).

               If  no  matching  output  can  be  found,  the Wayland compositor will decide on which output the
               fullscreen rootful Xwayland window will be placed.

               This option has no effect if Xwayland is not running fullscreen rootful.

       -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.

               This option is not compatible with -glamor option.

       -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), wayland-info(7)

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