Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:08:44 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: Evilham <contact@evilham.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up Wayland (Weston or Sway Compositor) on FreeBSD without X11 (Xorg)? Message-ID: <CAPmsJLBTMs_u1VSe%2BNkOH_NEJAgJKbdFzgY1PLDOXLELOOiLaQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2204c090-cd07-4828-afd0-135c76626413@yggdrasil.evilham.com> References: <CAPmsJLAK%2B3%2BOgFbcWk_bKiOXrRadUbxvc%2BSaeGVXDuJ0nEKmKg@mail.gmail.com> <2204c090-cd07-4828-afd0-135c76626413@yggdrasil.evilham.com>
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Thanks for getting back to me on this. I was just wondering if maybe it is possible to build the Wayland Weston on FreeBSD with Direct Framebuffer (DirectFB) or similar instead of DRM which does not seem to be working. Just maybe that could be a solution but had not found any way to get Wayland or another compositor (Cage, etc.) to work with it yet. My test box is a Debian 10 that I have installed FreeBSD into a Virtualbox VM but I am wanting to eventually take the full plunge over to a complete FreeBDF with graphical desktop as well so that I do not have to develop in a VirtualBox setting but have not found the best FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FuryBSD, GhostBSD, or some other that has a GUI to work from. Will keep digging into it though. Cheers, Lonnie On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:12 PM Evilham <contact@evilham.com> wrote: > On dt., jul. 21 2020, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > > 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" > > > Hey, I recall having had a similar issue with freerdp in Wayland; > I think at first it was because I used freerdp and not wlfreerdp! > Maybe that's your issue? > > In the end, I started using remmina (in ports) which also has a > kiosk mode (-k argument) that might be something of interest to > you; having the GUI for a list of connections ended up being nice > for me. > It's kinda big, but it might shed some light into whether or not > and maybe why wlfreerdp can work for you. > > Cheers and good luck :-). > -- > Evilham > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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