1. Wayland logs
To get the logs of the Wayland protocol messages, set this environment variable before launching your application:
export WAYLAND_DEBUG=1
or you can assign it in your application command line:
WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 ./your_application
You will get the Wayland protocol messages linked to your application:
[3192810.971] -> wl_display@1.get_registry(new id wl_registry@2)
[3192811.087] -> wl_display@1.sync(new id wl_callback@3)
[3192811.459] wl_display@1.delete_id(3)
[3192811.495] wl_registry@2.global(1, "wl_compositor", 5)
[3192811.527] -> wl_registry@2.bind(1, "wl_compositor", 4, new id [unknown]@4)
[3192811.556] wl_registry@2.global(2, "wl_subcompositor", 1)
[3192811.580] wl_registry@2.global(3, "wp_viewporter", 1)
[3192811.602] wl_registry@2.global(4, "zxdg_output_manager_v1", 2)
[3192811.624] wl_registry@2.global(5, "wp_presentation", 1)
[3192811.645] wl_registry@2.global(6, "wp_single_pixel_buffer_manager_v1", 1)
[3192811.667] wl_registry@2.global(7, "zwp_relative_pointer_manager_v1", 1)
[3192811.689] wl_registry@2.global(8, "zwp_pointer_constraints_v1", 1)
[3192811.711] wl_registry@2.global(9, "zwp_input_timestamps_manager_v1", 1)
[3192811.733] wl_registry@2.global(10, "wl_data_device_manager", 3)
[3192811.755] wl_registry@2.global(11, "wl_shm", 1)
[3192811.778] -> wl_registry@2.bind(11, "wl_shm", 1, new id [unknown]@5)
[3192811.958] -> wl_shm@5.create_pool(new id wl_shm_pool@6, fd 5, 4096)
[3192812.520] -> wl_shm_pool@6.resize(8832)
[3192812.663] -> wl_shm_pool@6.resize(18624)
[3192812.754] wl_registry@2.global(12, "weston_touch_calibration", 1)
...
2. Saving Weston logs in a file
Standard Weston logs are available in the /home/weston/weston.log file when Weston is started with the "weston user" using the systemd service.
cat /home/weston/weston.log
3. To go further
You can refer to the official Wayland and Weston documentations:
- Wayland documentation main page: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/index.html
- Weston documentation main page: https://wayland.pages.freedesktop.org/weston/index.html