Method

MetaWaylandClientspawn

Declaration [src]

GSubprocess*
meta_wayland_client_spawn (
  MetaWaylandClient* client,
  MetaDisplay* display,
  GError** error,
  const char* argv0,
  ...
)

Description [src]

Creates a GSubprocess given a provided varargs list of arguments. It also sets up a new Wayland socket and sets the environment variable WAYLAND_SOCKET to make the new process to use it.

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

Parameters

display

Type: MetaDisplay

The current MetaDisplay.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

error

Type: GError

Error.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

argv0

Type: const char*

Command line arguments.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

...

Type:

Continued arguments, NULL terminated.

Return value

Type: GSubprocess

A new GSubprocess, or NULL on error (and error will be set).

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.