Has anyone managed to run Weston from the command line without the graphical desktop?
I didn’t try Weston, but I did try XFCE and Sway, among other othings. With the Radxa-provided Debian 12 image, anything other than standard GNOME resulted in GPU lockups and nothing being displayed. I think switching to the Panfrost driver works better with non-GNOME DEs/WMs, see threads in this forum.
Thanks for the reply.
I wanted to hack Weston which is simpler than Sway to position windows anywhere i want. Mutter is too complex.
I can run weston from a gnome-console (terminal emulator) but not from a terminal (without desktop).
In your gnome setup, can you stop desktop and get into a terminal? Something like:
sudo systemctl stop gdm
I don’t have access to my Orion board right now, but I remember that switching to a virtual terminal was unreliable once anything graphical had started. On the other hand, after doing “systemctl disable gdm” and rebooting, I could switch between text-based terminals and do “systemctl start gdm” (once!).
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