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 If you wish to build against a Git version of wlroots, check out the [wlroots-next branch].
 
-To enable XWayland, you should also install xorg-xwayland and build with `-Dxwayland=enabled`.
+To enable XWayland, you should also install xorg-xwayland and build with `meson setup build -Dxwayland=enabled`.
 
 ## Configuration