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man: Rewrite Xwayland section 

Try to make it more useful and accessible to users. And capitalise it
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
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@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ shell plugins. Two plugins are provided: the desktop shell, and the kiosk
shell. shell.
Weston also supports X clients via Weston also supports X clients via
.BR XWayland ", see below." .BR Xwayland ", see below."
. .
.\" *************************************************************** .\" ***************************************************************
.SH BACKENDS .SH BACKENDS
@ -86,18 +86,16 @@ and then a controller module which may launch helper clients.
. .
.\" *************************************************************** .\" ***************************************************************
.SH XWAYLAND .SH XWAYLAND
XWayland requires a special X.org server to be installed. This X server will Weston can support X11 clients running within a Weston session via an
connect to a Wayland server as a Wayland client, and X clients will connect to X server called
the X server. XWayland provides backwards compatibility to X applications in a .BR Xwayland "."
Wayland stack. Xwayland is built as a separate executable, provided by X.Org. Once built
and installed, it can be activated with the
XWayland is activated by instructing .BR \-\-xwayland
.BR weston " to load the XWayland module, see " EXAMPLES . option. Weston will listen on a new X11 display socket and export it
Weston starts listening on a new X display socket, and exports it in the through the
environment variable .BR DISPLAY
.BR DISPLAY . environment variable.
When the first X client connects, Weston launches a special X server as a
Wayland client to handle the X client and all future X clients.
It has also its own X window manager where cursor themes and sizes can be It has also its own X window manager where cursor themes and sizes can be
chosen using chosen using