On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 01:35:22PM +0100, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 09:03:28PM +0200, Sebastien Marie wrote: > > Comments or OK ? > > I'm curious what is the general state of wayland on OpenBSD? Is it > usable by ordinary users? I looked in the ports but I don't see any > window manager such as sway that I could run to play with wayland.
Wayland compositors usually depends on libinput (and libevdev or udev), which is a blocker for us actually for running wayland natively (it might be other problems). The reason I am upgrading wayland is that some ports are expecting wayland libraries >=1.20.0 (and we have only 1.19.0). These wayland libraries are clients libraries. The fact we don't have a compositor (the server part) doesn't mean we shouldn't do work. For the server approch, one thing I am currently testing is arcan (see graphics/arcan) which is development framework, which is able to run over egl-dri (directly using /dev/dri vnodes, permitting graphical output starting from the console) or on SDl (via X11). arcan has basic wayland support (see arcan-wayland). With more work, it should be possible to run wayland clients on arcan. Thanks. -- Sebastien Marie
