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I'm old school Xorg, but want to give Wayland a go. The application that has me stymied is VMware Horizon client . It explicitly doesn't support Wayland, but shouldn't it work under Xwayland? How do I explicitly make it run with that, and not fail telling me Wayland isn't supported?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Despite the fact that reddit is reddit, you have to give it credit for all the answers it has to linux questions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I still get "The display server protocol that you are using is not supported." when I set the environment variable. Other ideas?

[–] donphilbo 2 points 1 year ago

To quote the wayland arch wiki page

Xwayland is started via a compositor, so you should check the documentation for your chosen compositor for Xwayland compatibility and instructions on how to start Xwayland.