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From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
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Subject: Re: Wayland on FreeBSD
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Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> writes:

> Hello world :-)
>
> Time to move from X11 to Wayland :-)
>
> Anyone using Wayland with success already?

Many, bsdstats.org should have some numbers from those who opted in.
wlroots-based compositors have very good support and can be tested
without leaving the comfort zone of xorg-server:

- x11-wm/cage: kiosk, good for nesting
- x11-wm/hikari: stacking with some tiling, developed on FreeBSD
- x11-wm/sway: manual tiling, often first to adopt new wlroots features
- x11-wm/wayfire: stacking with some tiling, many plugins

Elsewhere the situation isn't as good (correct me):
- Gnome Wayland is stable upstream but not ported due to logind (from systemd)
- KDE5 on Wayland maybe buggy upstream and hasn't been QA'd on FreeBSD by kde@ team yet
- Enlightenment in ports/ currently fails to build with Wayland support
- Weston port is abandoned due to being poor fit for day-to-day usage

I'm using Sway myself primarily with X11 applications. For example,
"vblank_mode=0 glxgears" shows 3x more FPS than on real Xorg server. ;)