Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:01:26 +0900 From: Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com> To: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> Cc: x11-list freebsd <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does either Gnome or KDE support Wayland on FreeBSD? [EOM] Message-ID: <CAHxjC0-xukjTxRN3xZMJax%2BNhn4VZBQHdbZyXDdse5pUq8pe7w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <dcf2b904-01d7-ecd1-d6bd-4804e29ec32e@gjunka.com> References: <e1910705-ec89-be50-1317-6f0ad95f61cf@gjunka.com> <CAECmPwv7g5iCKMa4UrLqcXq6VS-5CHFJT31w-uzheg3y%2BLz9-Q@mail.gmail.com> <3f7629b0-1947-4bd3-f4fa-eb685dc2046b@gjunka.com> <1530481686.15209.0@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology> <ae5fa504-5d7c-fe83-b0d6-ffff362bd2f1@gjunka.com> <CAHxjC09A94GtDWkXY%2BZBZ8SdQ5Aer7wVnTiUOVPuQgq620KCcg@mail.gmail.com> <dcf2b904-01d7-ecd1-d6bd-4804e29ec32e@gjunka.com>
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Hi Grzegorz, my definition of "available out of the box" is "user can start using software without compiling anything". :) Above is my personal opinion of course, sorry for not making it clear. Also, yes, you right, I was thinking only about standalone Wayland compositors. As Greg said currently Wayland+KDE support on FreeBSD is better than for Wayland+Gnome. Regards, Denis On 7/2/18, Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> wrote: > > On 02/07/2018 03:41, Denis Polygalov wrote: >> Hi Grzegorz, >> "Currently FreeBSD supports Wayland compositor" - this statement is too >> general. >> To my knowledge the situation is like follows. >> Currently FreeBSD support Wayland (protocol) out of the box, just type: >> $ pkg install wayland >> In order to be able to see anything on the screen (or in a window created >> by X) >> you need a so called "Wayland compositor". >> In a world of Wayland the compositor is _the_ heavy stuff with wide >> range of dependencies. >> On FreeBSD currently there is no Wayland compositor available "out of >> the box" i.e. from packages for example, so you have to compile one of >> them by yourself. >> Reference Wayland compositor - "Weston" is not in the ports tree yet but >> you can >> find FreeBSD port for it under review here: >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10599?id=28017 >> In order to use Weston or any other Wayland compositor you need at least: >> 11.2-RELEASE FreeBSD >> drm-stable-kmod installed from ports >> mesa-libs compiled from ports with Wayland support >> Any other dependencies may differ for different Wayland compositors. >> The Weston for example require custom kernel with evdev enabled. >> kwin_wayland may require something else... >> Another Wayland compositor I manage to get run on a GENERIC 11.2 kernel >> is >> graphics/qt5-wayland. >> > > Thanks Denis. That explains a lot! From what I could check a Wayland > compositor is supported in KWin from 5.4 (we have 5.12 in ports) and in > GnomeShell from 3.18 (same we have in ports). > > That would imply that those two compositors are available from ports > "out of the box", in contrary to your statement, unless they have been > disabled, not tested, or are otherwise not fit for purpose? Or you meant > that there are no standalone compositors available? > >
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