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docs(GUI): running Etcher on Wayland (#624)

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This entry roughly documents how to get Etcher running on Wayland by
using the XWayland Server.

Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/509
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviottidc@gmail.com>
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@ -47,4 +47,22 @@ Refer to [the following message from Ubuntu's mailing
list](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-June/033495.html) if
you want to learn more.
Running on Wayland
------------------
Electron is based on Gtk2, which can't run natively on Wayland. Fortunately,
the [XWayland Server][xwayland] provides backwards compatibility to run *any* X
client on Wayland, including Etcher.
This usually works out of the box on mainstream GNU/Linux distributions that
properly support Wayland. If it doesn't, make sure the `xwayland.so` module is
being loaded by declaring it in your [weston.ini]:
```
[core]
modules=xwayland.so
```
[appimage]: http://appimage.org
[xwayland]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
[weston.ini]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man5/weston.ini.5.html