No X apps support through Xwayland on Ubuntu 20.04

[B1Z0N]

When I try to run any X app in Sway it outputs: Missing X server or $DISPLAY. When I'm running Xwayland it prints that sway is missing wl-shell support. In this issue they dropped support for wl-shell. And xorg-xserver(xwayland too in this repo) on latest commits uses xdg-shell.

Does someone have similar problems? Can't run on ubuntu20.04, probably need to update it to 22.04, but I can't, it's not my machine. Just in case, here's my logs from running google chrome on sway.

[B1Z0N]

Solution: one should manually enable Xwayland on build to run apps like Chrome and other. In steps Build wlroots and Build sway replace meson build with meson build -Dxwayland=enable.

@Llandy3d may I open a PR to fix this? We should definitely enable wayland, lots of apps use it!

[Llandy3d]

Absolutely! It would be really appreciated, I will try to reproduce the issue and test the PR fixes as soon as I can get my hands on another machine for testing!

[Llandy3d]

alright, I got a vm to work and I was able to test the installation.
Following the current steps I seem to have x apps working correctly out of the box, I confirmed it with xeyes and Chromium.

Do you by any chance remember if you've installed these dependencies before building wlroots ?

sudo apt install libxcb-composite0-dev \
        libxcb-icccm4-dev \
        libxcb-image0-dev \
        libxcb-render0-dev \
        libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
        libxkbcommon-dev \
        libxcb-xinput-dev \
        libx11-xcb-dev