Xwayback - Man Page

experimental X11 compatibility layer

Synopsis

Xwayback :display args

Description

Xwayback is a stub X server that uses a wayland compositor to launch Xwayland.

Options

Xwayback accepts all flags Xorg(1) accepts.  However, some options are stubs.

Additionally, Xwayback supports the following:

-help

Show help page

-version,  -showconfig

Show Xwayback version

Envvars

WAYBACK_COMPOSITOR_PATH

Path to wayback-compositor

XWAYLAND_PATH

Path to Xwayland

WAYBACK_OUTPUT

The output to use, either in the format "<Make> <model>" or the display ID (i.e. "eDP-1")

License

MIT

See Also

wayback-session(1), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), Xwayland(1)

Referenced By

wayback-session(1).

2025-12-31