Building Chromium as a Wayland-only client

[Yves Arrouye]

Is that possible? I'd like to make a build for Linux that only works as Wayland client, without X etc. 

Can i do that by setting ozone_auto_platforms=false and then ozone_patform_wayland=true?  I am having trouble figuring out the right combinations from https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/ozone_overview.md (e.g. the "Wayland" section also says use_ozone=true use_system_minigbm=true use_system_libdrm=true).

YA

[Maksim Sisov]

Hi Yves,

Ozone - is the abstraction layer that implements many other backends
like drm, x11, wayland, scenic and etc.

For Linux, only x11 and wayland available. Thus, to enable them, you
have to use the following args:

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use_ozone=true
ozone_auto_platforms=false
ozone_platform_wayland=true

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Furthermore, due to security restrictions for the gpu process and the
restrictions that the Wayland backend has, we are using gbm to create
dmabufs and pass them to Wayland.
That is, to be able to run hw accelerate Chromium in a multiprocess
mode, gbm was used. Chromium has own gbm library called minigbm, but it
is more for ChromeOS than Linux.
Though, one is able to run Chromium/Wayland on Linux with that library
as well.

However, it is recommended to use system libraries instead.

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use_system_minigbm=true
use_system_libdrm=true

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PS Please bear in mind that Ozone/Wayland is not in production yet and
unexpected failures are expected.

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[Maksim Sisov]

On 17.09.2019 08:36, Maksim Sisov wrote:
> Hi Yves,
>
> Ozone - is the abstraction layer that implements many other backends
> like drm, x11, wayland, scenic and etc.
>
> For Linux, only x11 and wayland available. Thus, to enable them, you
> have to use the following args:

s/them/Wayland/

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