XWAYLAND-RUN(1)

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✨ XWAYLAND-RUN ✨

okay bestie, so this is xwayland-run from section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the little glue goblin that lets your dusty old X11 app live its best life inside your shiny Wayland setup 💖

🦋 NAME 🦋

xwayland-run — run an X11 client on a dedicated Xwayland server 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xwayland-run [Xwayland options ...] -- Xclient [Xclient options ...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea ☕ — xwayland-run spawns a given X11 client on a dedicated Xwayland server that's running rootful in a Wayland environment. that's it. that's the whole vibe. your X11 app gets its own private Xwayland era and honestly? main character energy 👑

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

  • Xwayland(1) — go read that one too, it's giving origin story ✨

and that's the whole page, no cap 💜 thanks for coming to my ted talk, ily, go run your X11 apps in style 🧚

sign-off moment 🎀 this was XWAYLAND-RUN(1) from the General Commands Manual — see you in the next one, bestie 💖✨

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