Friday, December 10, 2021

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

On 2021/12/10 14:02, Aaron Bieber wrote:
>
> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> writes:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> Even though it's in the context of wayland? It's direct from the
> freedesktop.org site.

As far as I'm concerned DESCR (or "the information displayed by
pkg_info") relates to that software's use in OpenBSD. Using a direct
copy-and-paste of upstream's blurb often doesn't make sense.

> >
> >
> >> 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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