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| author | Manuel Stoeckl <code@mstoeckl.com> | 2021-03-02 22:04:58 -0500 |
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| committer | Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> | 2025-06-08 16:20:35 +0000 |
| commit | 4a0c4e211949bd58fa7e6105487b8dac0d4cfd1c (patch) | |
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| parent | server: Document wl_display_add_socket_auto (diff) | |
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doc: Further explain typical display socket lookup
This change mentions the case where WAYLAND_SOCKET is used, which helps
people avoid just testing 'getenv(WAYLAND_DISPLAY)' to see if a
Wayland compositor is available;
Signed-off-by: Manuel Stoeckl <code@mstoeckl.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml b/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml index 692f17e..e4087e9 100644 --- a/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml +++ b/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml @@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ in the environment). Beginning in Wayland 1.15, implementations can optionally support server socket endpoints located at arbitrary locations in the filesystem by setting <emphasis>WAYLAND_DISPLAY</emphasis> - to the absolute path at which the server endpoint listens. + to the absolute path at which the server endpoint listens. The socket may + also be provided through file descriptor inheritance, in which case + <emphasis>WAYLAND_SOCKET</emphasis> is set. </para> <para> Every message is structured as 32-bit words; values are represented in the |