Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:56:54 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting up Wayland (Weston or Sway Compositor) on FreeBSD without X11 (Xorg)? Message-ID: <CAPmsJLAK%2B3%2BOgFbcWk_bKiOXrRadUbxvc%2BSaeGVXDuJ0nEKmKg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi All, I hope that everyone is doing well and truly hope that someone can help me on this as I have no idea how to proceed. I need a super ultra-thin graphic interface that will run a single application in fullscreen mode much like a Kiosk. The challenge is that Xorg is entirely too big and read that you could run Wayland using a compositor without Xorg which may be promising, but I do not know yet. The truth is that my core FreeBSD is coming in at about 30MB and now I would like to put a GUI on it to support the single application while hoping to try and also keep the total size absolutely as low as possible. If I could keep the whole thing under 100MB then that would be awesome, but I do not know if this can be done. In any case, the application FreeRDP and is supposed to have a Wayland client. I also tried to look into DirectFB (Direct Framebuffer) and see that FreeBSD can load it from the "pkg" system for which is says that it also loads wayland-1.18.0_3 Wayland composite "server" but when I tried to run the freerdp wfreerdp wayland client from the text screen, it says: failed to connect to Wayland display (null): no such file or directory Does anyone have any suggestions or advice on how I might proceed either with Wayland or some even some other possible solution? It's a very unique and challenging idea to have a super small footprint graphics solution, but I feel that there is one somewhere. Best Regards and looking forward to hearing from someone on this. Lonnie
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