How to Install Latest Wayland in Ubuntu 14.04 Gnome via PPA

Daily builds of Wayland and Weston are now available in PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Ubuntu 15.04.

Thanks to Bryce Harrington, a former Canonical developer who continues to be heavily involved in Wayland development, he has created an automatic builds PPA to make it easy to try out the newest Wayland/Weston code on Ubuntu.

To get started, open terminal from the Dash, App launcher, or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, do below steps:

1. To add the PPA, paste below command in terminal and run:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:wayland.admin/daily-builds

2. After that, install the package weston and XWayland via Synaptic Package Manager or by running below commands one by one:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install weston xwayland

3. Now you should be able to start Weston within X by running command weston , which provides a Terminal along with a basic window manager functionality.

If you want you can create & edit weston.ini file via below command:

gedit ~/.config/weston.ini

Change its appearances by adding some settings like this page. Finally the weston window looks like:

4. To running Gnome Shell session on Wayland, run command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-wayland

Then log out and select “Gnome on Wayland” in gdm login screen:

If you’re using the default LightDM display manager, you may have to do :

Install Gnome Shell if don’t have Gnome session: sudo apt-get install gnome-shell If you’ve installed Gnome-Shell but still using LightDM, run command to select gdm: sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm Finally restart your computer and you should see the gdm login screen as above picture shows.