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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2019 23:32:55 -0700
From:      Johannes Lundberg <johalun@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
Cc:        Dale Brazelton <dalebrazelton@outlook.com>, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sway, Wayland, and Xwayland
Message-ID:  <bf0951a2-2d6c-5d57-8cc0-82247390be7c@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1560288228.78549.0@unrelenting.technology>
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On 6/11/19 2:23 PM, Greg V wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 19:24, Johannes Lundberg <johalun@FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
>> On 6/10/19 7:03 PM, Jan Beich wrote:
>>>  (CC'ing appropriate public list. I don't help privately.)
>>>
>>>  Dale Brazelton <dalebrazelton@outlook.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I've managed to get Sway working but am
>>>>  unable to get any X11 apps to work thru xwayland. For instance if I
>>>>  start sway and then start firefox from my terminal app (alacritty)
>>>>  nothing happens.
>>>
>>>  Did you change any port options in x11-wm/sway or one of its
>>> dependencies?
>>>  Did you define LIBGL_DRI3_ENABLE=1 in environ(7) to avoid llvmpipe
>>> fallback?
>>>  Does $DISPLAY in alacritty session and Xwayland 1st argument in
>>> ps(1) match?
>>>  Can you show "sway -d" output? IIRC, Sway starts Xwayland on first
>>> use.
>>>  Can you try "firefox --new-instance --profile $(mktemp -dt
>>> ffprofile)"?
>> Other simple X apps like xclock, or even glxgears that need Xwayland run
>> but are not displayed. The window seem to be  simply hidden. IIRC there
>> was a fix to this but I can't remember what that was. I tried
>> enable/disable DRI3 but to no success...
>
> Xwayland windows not displaying is the good old ioctl permission thing:
>
> >>>
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues/33#issuecomment-422793245
> <<<
>
> ^^^ maybe it's time to merge my workaround since no one's found the
> root cause ^^^

Looks like this is fixed in Xorg 1.20.  I built my xorg-server and
xwayland packages from our dev branch here
https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-ports/tree/feature/xserver-1.20
and tested myself.

Hopefully we can get 1.20 out soon...

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