Handle secondary headless backend failures

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sway/server.c b/sway/server.c
index cde8a5a2..ac30b6cf 100644
--- a/sway/server.c
+++ b/sway/server.c
@@ -173,7 +173,12 @@ bool server_init(struct sway_server *server) {
 
         server->headless_backend =
                 wlr_headless_backend_create_with_renderer(server->wl_display, renderer);
-        wlr_multi_backend_add(server->backend, server->headless_backend);
+        if (!server->headless_backend) {
+                sway_log(SWAY_INFO, "Failed to create secondary headless backend, "
+                        "starting without it");
+        } else {
+                wlr_multi_backend_add(server->backend, server->headless_backend);
+        }
 
         // This may have been set already via -Dtxn-timeout
         if (!server->txn_timeout_ms) {