[OE-core] [<OE-core][PATCH v2 3/4] packagegroup-core-x11-base: Remove matchbox for XWayland case.

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Thu Jan 7 20:44:08 UTC 2016


Hello Prabhu,

(adding Ross on CC)

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Prabhu Sundararaj
<prabhu.sundararaj at nxp.com> wrote:
> Xwayland with Weston and MatchBox cannot go together. Both are window managers. In the xwayland(core-image-weston), matchbox will run on top weston.
> XWayland need Wayland supported Window Manager (Weston in this case) to run X applications.
>
> When Matchbox added to xwayland(in this case weston image), then it will be two window managers. Which does not makes sense
>
> Also while building core-image-weston, someone should not expect matchbox. It is meant for Weston.
>
> I understand your usecase, but that can be achieved using mutter(clutter). Mutter is a full window manager supports both X11 and wayland. Users will not see any difference whether xwayland or x11 image.

Great; so the mutter or another option is how we ought to work on
OE-Core. We cannot apply hacks here just to move on but instead we
ought to fix this in OE-Core and move all ecosystem to the right
direction.

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