Friday, December 10, 2021

Re: PRE-NEW: wayland/xwayland (Need help)

On 2021/12/10 18:30, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> Please find attached a simple xwayland-21.1.3 port. It builds
> surprisingly easy. BUT there are two dirty hackers aka patches that need
> our attention and where I need support.
>
> - hw/xwayland/xwayland-input.c Yeah missing libinput, maybe some
> wscons(4) hackers can help.
> - os/rpcauth.c No clue why this not build without issues. The same code
> build fine in xenocara (Or not when it is deactivated, I don't know.)
>
> I would appreciate your support. Cheers, Rafael
>
> Comment:
> X clients under Wayland (XWayland)
>
> Description:
> Wayland is a complete window system in itself, but even so, if we're migrating
> away from X, it makes sense to have a good backwards compatibility story. With

I don't like "if we're migrating away from X" in DESCR, I don't think we
have any such plans



> a few changes, the Xorg server can be modified to use wayland input devices
> for input and forward either the root window or individual top-level windows
> as wayland surfaces. The server still runs the same 2D driver with the same
> acceleration code as it does when it runs natively. The main difference is
> that wayland handles presentation of the windows instead of KMS.
>
> Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
>
> WWW: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
>

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