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How to run weston-launch by default instead of Unity on Ubuntu 16.04?

I want to run my application at startup (like in ~/.config/upstart/*.conf) in wayland environment. Is it feasible at the moment?

I need a most minimalistic window manager possible. I don't need gestures and other high-level features, just one full-screen window plus possibility to run weston-terminal to perform debug/tweaking actions.

Tomilov Anatoliy
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    How did you install wayland ? If from the ppa - there may be a package, gnome-session-wayland sudo apt-get install gnome-session-wayland This will add "Gnome on Wayland" to GDM . If there is no such package, you would have to install GDM and gnome-shell (lightdm apparently will not launch weston ?) . You would then autologin. If all that is too much, there is an elegant solution on the Arch forums you may be able to adapt : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102366 – Panther Nov 08 '17 at 13:10
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    The 2 problems you face are to start X and auto login at boot without light/gdm or slim. Other links https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2243674 and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Automatic_login_into_Xorg_without_display_manager – Panther Nov 08 '17 at 13:13

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you may have to disable lightdm or gdm, then with logind alone weston would start it from tty

weston does not have an autostart feature although you may find an outdated patch online

you could add [launcher]s to the panel for your applications though

anything else would be started from your terminal emulator

weston.ini man page

ustick
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