LinuxFest Northwest 2018: What A Sys Admin Needs To Know To Troubleshoot Wayland.
Channel: linuxfestnorthwest
Date: 01/05/2018

David Hamner

What x11 tools exist today: - xinit - startx - Impotent files - starting in runlevel 3

What's new in Wayland. - how can a user start a Wayland session for troubleshooting? - what desktop env can be run. - Issues: - No x forward - - Xwayland has some issues - - missing apps - what hardware can you run Wayland on today - When will it hit server rooms.

I talk about some of this on my YouTube channel: What x11 tools exist today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv3kgsm4wk0

I also made a tool that could be useful in Wayland called 'janit'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DKDol1B1bo