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This page describes Wayland-specific debugging tools.

Compositor features

Running wayland-info will list all global interfaces advertized by the compositor. It will also tell additional information about the interfaces it knows about and have something to report, like monitor make and model, wl_seat capabilities, and wl_shm pixel formats. wayland-info comes with wayland-utils, and works on any compositor.

OpenGL features

OpenGL (all flavours) features under Wayland can be queried with wflinfo provided by Waffle. Just use -p wayland argument.

Protocol dumpers

When using export WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 (or WAYLAND_DEBUG=client or WAYLAND_DEBUG=server) is not enough, the following tools may help.

Introspection tools