Welcome to Weston documentation!

Contents:

• Running Weston
  • Multi-back-end support
  • Additional set-up steps
  • Running Weston in a graphical environment
  • Running Weston on a stand-alone back-end
  • Running Weston on a different seat on a stand-alone back-end
  • Running weston from a systemd service
• Libweston
  • Compositor
  • Weston config
  • Shell utils
  • Output management
  • Logging/Debugging
  • Debugging with Flight Recorder
  • Further work
• Weston test suite
  • Test execution
  • Types of tests
  • DRM-backend tests
  • Writing tests
• Weston kiosk-shell
• Weston IVI-shell
  • IVI-shell client protocol
  • IVI-shell Weston modules
  • Controlling the IVI-shell
  • IVI-shell example implementation

Weston

Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.

Out of the box, Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, industrial, kiosks, set-top boxes and TVs.

It also provides a library called Libweston which allows users to build their own custom full-featured environments on top of Weston’s core.

The core focus of Weston is correctness and reliability. Weston aims to be lean and fast, but more importantly, to be predictable. Whilst Weston does have known bugs and shortcomings, we avoid unknown or variable behaviour as much as possible, including variable performance such as occasional spikes in frame display time.

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