weston

A lightweight and functional Wayland compositor.

Useful for setting up a minimal wayland-based graphical environment (like twm for minimal xorg graphical environment).

​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/releases/16.0.0/downloads/weston-16.0.0.tar.xz

Dependencies

Required: libxkbcommon, wayland-protocols, pixman, libinput

Recommended: lcms2, cairo, pango, libpng, libjpeg-turbo, libwebp, mesa, seatd, libdisplay-info, xorg-libraries, xwayland

Optional: libva, pipewire, freerdp, neatvnc, gstreamer, xcb-util-cursor (for some tests, disabled below), lua

Installation

Apply a patch to fix an issue causing a completely black screen at startup on some Intel graphics cards:

curl -L https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/merge_requests/2178.patch | patch -Np1

Allow building with libdisplay-info-0.4.0:

sed "s/, '< 0.4.0'//" -i meson.build

Allow building without xcb-util-cursor if it's not installed:

sed 's/get_option.*xwayland.*/false/' -i tests/harness/meson.build

Build the package:

mkdir build
cd    build

meson setup --prefix=/usr             \
            --buildtype=release       \
            -D backend-pipewire=false \
            -D backend-rdp=false      \
            -D backend-vnc=false      \
            -D shell-lua=false

Test the package:

ninja test

Install the package:

sudo ninja install