Hello, In what might the most surprising port proposal of the year, I'm proud to present a new port for wine. This has been a collective effort, after some of the prodding at the %gs/gsbase question (see thread [1]). The gates swung open with Andrii's software solution to the %gs issue - explanation to me: "can't set gsbase, so we are emulating %gs prefix on commands". Overall, the heavy lifting was done by Andrii and Fabien - kudos. Turns out there is a ground-swell with interest in wine [2], different than even 5-10 years ago because a lot of Windows software has since moved to being 64bit. We have since tested several dozens of 64-bit Windows software, mostly successfully. See screenshots at [3][4][5], livestream recordings at [6] for example. Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released just last month runs, and runs well (requires adding in vkd3d-proton; see README; livestream at [7] which looks less fluent than it is due to the on-system recording with ffmpeg). Biggest limitation is that WoW64 doesn't work, so 32bit Windows software is still a no-op. You can check .exe/.dll easily with file(1) - if it says something like "MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit", then it's 32-bit. The builtin-tests are disabled for now. Enabling them is pretty involved as they need access to the X server and multiple tests still hang, however that was not observed in the real life testing with a good number of games. This is still being worked on. For those who wish to test it, I suggest Notepad++ as a small, fairly straightforward piece of 64-bit Windows software [8]. Note that this is (as always) run-at-your-own-risk software (see [9]). Consider setting up a separate, non-privileged user for this until we can explore if some fencing in, potentially with unveil(2) can be done. Appreciate testing of the port draft and contributions by: brynet@, bentley@, pertho (on irc.libera.chat #openbsd-gaming), vl_ms ok? [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=179067466617674&w=2 [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=179070170845285&w=2 [3] https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/comments/1x4e7fi/some_samples_from_wip_wine_port/ [4] https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/comments/1x5yxpu/more_wineonopenbsd_screenshots/ [5] https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/comments/1x7z2ry/even_more_wineonopenbsd_proof/ [6] https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/8tjjFRDtGJQZwxfE4ojVoC [7] https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/oZcTRKL5JMiU4M4FqGKcNH [8] https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/download/v8.9.8.1/npp.8.9.8.1.portable.x64.zip [9] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/FAQ#is-wine-malware-compatible
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Re: NEW: x11/sddm (X11 and Wayland display manager)
On Sun Oct 18, 2026 at 09:41:46PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote: > On Sun Sep 20, 2026 at 05:31:25PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote: > > Hi ports@, Hi Qt haters, > > > > To keep up with the competition at my hackathon table, I'd like to > > introduce another login/display manager. I'm very happy with the result, > > which makes using KDE Plasma easier, particularly for "desktop" users. > > > > You can enable and test it with: > > > > $ doas rcctl disable xenodm > > $ doas rcctl stop xenodm > > > > $ doas rcctl enable sddm > > $ doas rcctl start sddm > > > > Information for inst:sddm-0.21.0.20260819 > > > > Comment: > > QML based X11 and Wayland display manager > > > > Description: > > The Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager. It is the > > recommended display manager for the KDE Plasma and LXQt desktop environments. > > > > Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org> > > > > WWW: https://github.com/sddm/sddm > > > > I'm lookin for tests (X11) and OKs. At the moment I have also a valid > > setup for X11 nor for wayland. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rafael > > New version with _permit_setugid, OK to import? Forget the p2 version, new p3 attached. We don't need _permit_setugid. We don't need suid either. That was based on an old GDM port, and I assumed the same for the sddm-helper as well. Here's the latest version with a new uid: Index: user.list =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list,v diff -u -p -r1.492 user.list --- user.list 23 Sep 2026 21:24:56 -0000 1.492 +++ user.list 18 Oct 2026 20:12:22 -0000 @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ id user group port 727 _sslsplit _sslsplit security/sslsplit 728 _sockd _sockd security/dante 729 _greyscanner _greyscanner mail/greyscanner -#730 _kdm _kdm x11/kde4/workspace +730 _sddm _sddm x11/sddm