Weston application environment

For all applications on Wayland it requires a certain set of environment variables to be correctly set. SimpleCore™ reference distribution simplecore-distro does offer a well defined set at /etc/default/weston-environment.

This will make sure that all SOC specific settings, like paths and names will be available to you in a common way.

Usage within a systemd service

Within a systemd service this can be easily made use of with

[Service]
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EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/weston-environment
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Usage from shell

/etc/default/weston-environment is automatically sourced in /etc/profile. So, from a shell where /etc/profile has been read or which inherit environment variables from such shell, there is nothing to do.

There are still some cases where explicitly sourcing /etc/default/weston-environment could be needed. From a POSIX compliant shell

. /etc/default/weston-environment
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