Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:09:42 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up Wayland (Weston or Sway Compositor) on FreeBSD without X11 (Xorg)? Message-ID: <CAPmsJLAnxk71X5NpMG-bHen4ft2VriOq5B9i=HZ0N35qUz02DQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5eee3f16-b0c1-cdf6-e69f-b4cb613ba5c2@nomadlogic.org> References: <CAPmsJLAK%2B3%2BOgFbcWk_bKiOXrRadUbxvc%2BSaeGVXDuJ0nEKmKg@mail.gmail.com> <5eee3f16-b0c1-cdf6-e69f-b4cb613ba5c2@nomadlogic.org>
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Thanks Pete, I am looking into them now to see if they could be of some use for my goals. Truly appreciate your response. Cheers, Lonnie On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: > > > On 7/21/20 6:56 AM, 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" > > > > 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? > > you probably need to install a Wayland display manager like sway or hikari: > https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/sway/ > https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/hikari/ > > both of these will probably require puling in some Xorg dependencies > though (for input devices iirc). > > anyway taking a look at those as a starting point would probably be a > good first step, get them working then focus on stripping out what you > don't deem necessary to minimize your footprint. > > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA > >
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