eec2e1d3b1 introduced logic to use the Xwayland
binary discovered via pkg-config.
While the newly introduced checks correctly used the binary from pkg-config,
the actual execution still used the previous PATH-search logic.
Instead of walking PATH like a previous proposal [1], this one
checks that the Xwayland path specified in the pkg-config file
exists.
I think this is a reasonable compromise:
- Users that don't have Xwayland installed system-wide won't get
a bogus DISPLAY env variable set up.
- Users that have WLR_XWAYLAND set won't be affected by this check.
- Users that have Xwayland installed system-wide and a different
Xwayland in their PATH still get their custom Xwayland.
- Users that don't have Xwayland installed system-wide but have it
somewhere else in PATH are left out. But this is pretty niche,
and they can just set WLR_XWAYLAND.
[1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2314
Xwayland has its own special handling for signals like SIGSEGV/SIGABRT.
Instead of leaving the job to the OS, it tries to walk up the call stack
(badly, because a lot of information is missing), print the stack trace
to stdout, then exit(1). This is very annoying because it prevents
Xwayland crashes from being easily debugged.
Xwayland has a flag "-core" that aborts instead of exiting. This allows
the OS to generate a coredump. It's far from perfect but better than
nothing, I guess.
When debugging Xwayland-related issues, a common first step in debugging
has been to ask the reporter to move their real Xwayland to
/usr/bin/Xwayland.bin, and create a shell script starting Xwayland with
extra arguments under the original /usr/bin/Xwayland location.
Introducing a `WLR_XWAYLAND` environment variable makes this less
invasive, by allowing the user to swap out Xwayland without resorting to
global system changes (or source patches).
The xwayland ready signals are used to do initial setup like starting xwm.
Discarding the signals means that the handler functions will not be called
in the case that Xwayland is restarted and thus, xwm managed clients fail.
Fixes #2174."
Thomas Weißschuh
Simon Ser
Isaac Freund
Dominik Honnef
Tudor Brindus
Ilia Bozhinov
Scott Moreau