This page describes a few other things that work with Wayland that are not included in the Wayland or Weston repos.

wlterm by David Herrmann

Native Wayland terminal emulator based on kmscon by the same author.

Java bindings by Jason Ekstrand's

Git.

Kodi (formerly XBMC)

Wayland integration as Google Summer of Code project (2017)

Previously:

Temporarily dropped as 'unmaintained' (2016)

Initial announcement (2013)

MPV

"Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2."

    git clone git://github.com/mpv-player/mpv.git
    ./configure --disable-x11 --disable-sdl --enable-wayland --disable-libass
    make
    sudo make install

glmark2

A GLES2 benchmark.

    export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$WLD/include # I believe needing this is a bug.
    bzr branch lp:glmark2
    cd glmark2
    ./waf configure --with-flavors=wayland-glesv2,wayland-gl --prefix=$WLD
    ./waf
    ./waf install
    $WLD/bin/glmark2-es2-wayland

Debugging tools

Compositor features

Running weston-info will list all global interfaces advertized by the compositor. It will also tell additional information about the interfaces it knows about and have something to report, like monitor make and model, wl_seat capabilities, and wl_shm pixel formats. Weston-info comes with Weston, and works on any compositor.

OpenGL features

OpenGL (all flavours) features under Wayland can be queried with wflinfo provided by Waffle. Just use -p wayland argument.

Protocol dumpers

When using export WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 (or WAYLAND_DEBUG=client or WAYLAND_DEBUG=server) is not enough, the following tools may help.

• wayland-tracker
  A Wayland protocol dumper, MIT licensed, written in Haskell, produces binary, text, and JSON formatted output. Runs as a middle-man for a single client.
• wayland-tracer
  A Wayland protocol dumper, MIT licensed, written in C, produces binary and human readable output. Can run as a middle-man for a single client, or act as a middle-man Wayland server.
• wlanalyzer / wldump
  A Wayland protocol dumper, MIT licensed, written in C++, produces human readable output. Runs as a middle-man for a single client.
• wldbg
  A Wayland connection processor, MIT licensed, written in C. Runs given functions on messages passed between server and clients or works in gdb-like mode. Can listen for new connections to a compositor and take over them. Runs as a middle-man for single/multiple clients.

Introspection tools

• GammaRay
  
  A software introspection tool for Qt applications, including a module for QtWayland compositors. Leveraging the libwayland-server introspection API and the QtWayland API it allows to look at the list of clients currently connected, their resources and relevant information based on the type of the resource, and the protocol flow between the client(s) and the compositor.