Ends the current Wayland session by sending SIGTERM to the compositor that owns the $WAYLAND_DISPLAY socket
From wayland-logout 1.4-r2 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running wayland-logout --help (exit 255) · terse output. permalink
WAYLAND_DISPLAY not set
Exit status (1) from the manual page
0
success
Examples (3) from the manual page, untested
wayland-logout To kill the current compositor instance, run inside the compositor environment:
env -i XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1002 WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-4 wayland-logout A typical use case, to kill a specific compositor instance of another user (with uid=1002), run as the other user (or as root):
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=/run/user/1002/wayland-4 wayland-logout or
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