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)