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tOsYZYny

I've put off migrating to wayland since i3 and X11 work fine for me, but I would like to move to wayland since that is supposedly the direction things are going.

I think I have everything nearly working except for DPMS, when I turn off both displays and then try to turn them back on, only 1 comes back on. This is the snippet controlling DPMS:

exec swayidle -w \
timeout 5 'swaymsg "output HDMI-A-1 dpms off"' \
timeout 5 'swaymsg "output DP-2 dpms off"' \
resume 'swaymsg "output * dpms on"'
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Summarizing the changes I made to my system:
1. Instead of calling startx to launch my graphical environment, I have another helper, start-wayland which concatenates my sway configuration into a single file, executes sway in the background and runs scripts in /etc/xprofile
2. Updated my i3 config to use swaylock, swayidle, and swaymsg
3. Updated my i3 config to have the appropriate # of colors to define elements
4. Updated my i3 config to configure my monitor layout using wlr-randr

Since I'm no longer using startx, I abandoned .xinitrc, but should I merely update .xinitrc with exec sway & as well? That won't help my DPMS issue though.
 
I just checked swaymsg 'output * power off'; sleep 5; swaymsg 'output * power on', and both outputs work as expected.

And why do you need .xinitrc? It's xinit-specific, you can delete it if you don't use xorg.
 
i always start dwl and wayland with dbus

Code: 
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session dwl -s 'dwlb -font "monospace:size=16"' 2>/dev/null

starting sway with dbus

Code: 
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session swayidle -w \
timeout 5 'swaymsg "output HDMI-A-1 dpms off"' \
timeout 5 'swaymsg "output DP-2 dpms off"' \
resume 'swaymsg "output * dpms on"'
 
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eseipi said:
I just checked swaymsg 'output * power off'; sleep 5; swaymsg 'output * power on', and both outputs work as expected.

And why do you need .xinitrc? It's xinit-specific, you can delete it if you don't use xorg.
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Are you sure it is power on and not dpms on / dpms off? The power on power off did not work for me. I will try again this evening.
 
i have been using Wayland and Nvidia since last December

i tried the following

dwl
labwc
wayfire
hikari
river

i have tutorials on setting up dwl, labwc and wayfire in the how to section
dwl is the best for wayland on freebsd
 
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tOsYZYny said:
Are you sure it is power on and not dpms on / dpms off? The power on power off did not work for me. I will try again this evening.
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sway-output(5) says the following:
Code: 
output <name> power on|off|toggle
   Turns on or off the specified output.
   [...]

output <name> dpms on|off|toggle
   Deprecated. Alias for power.
 
have you looked at wlr-randr

Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor.
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Code: 
sudo pkg install wlr-randr

Code: 
wl-randr -h

Code: 
--help
--dryrun
--json
--output <name>
  --on
  --off
  --toggle
  --mode|--custom-mode <width>x<height>[@<refresh>Hz]
  --preferred
  --pos <x>,<y>
  --transform normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270
  --scale <factor>
  --adaptive-sync enabled|disabled
 
NapoleonWils0n said:
i have been using Wayland and Nvidia since last December

i tried the following

dwl
labwc
wayfire
hikari
river

i have tutorials on setting up dwl, labwc and wayfire in the how to section
dwl is the best for wayland on freebsd
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Would you mind sharing any tutorial which worked for you? Especially for dwl.
 
heres all my notes

dwl

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freebsd dwl wayland tiling window manager install

freebsd dwl wayland tiling window manager install with patches in a separate git branch. the reason why you need to build dwl on freebsd rather than using the port or packages is because the dwl package lets you set an variable called DWL_HOME_CONFIG that points to a dwl config.h file which...
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dwl warp your cursor to another display with wlrctl

dwl warp (move) your cursor to another display with a keyboard shortcut using wlrctl which doesnt need root permissions to move the cursor warping your cursor will move your cursor to another display and give that display focus, i also cover moving windows to another display as well...
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dwl setting up volume keys on freebsd with the mixer command

setting up the media volume keys on the dwl wayland tiling window manager using the mixer command to raise, lower and mute the volume update you dont need to import the xf86 header, dwl already imports a version we can use updated code /* commands */ static const char *volumeup[] = {...
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cerberus/dwl at master · NapoleonWils0n/cerberus

cerberus code library. Contribute to NapoleonWils0n/cerberus development by creating an account on GitHub.
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labwc

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labwc a stacking wayland window manager inspired by openbox

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox. In this video i cover window placement , setting the theme, creating keyboard shortcuts to switch workspaces and move windows to different workspaces and monitors How to warp your cursor between monitors...
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wayfire

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Freebsd 14 Wayland and Wayfire using Nvidia on Dell XPS 15

Freebsd 14 Wayland running the Wayfire compositor on a Dell XPS 15 2019 using a Nvidia graphics card All the hardware works but you need to use wifibox for the wifi drivers, and nvidia on freebsd doesnt yet support nvenc and cuda the packages needed are nvidia-driver nvidia-settings...
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config files

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GitHub - NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-dotfiles-xps: freebsd dotfiles dell xps 15 2019

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GitHub - NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-root-xps: freebsd root dotfiles for dell xps 15 2019

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GitHub - NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-bin-xps: freebsd-bin-xps

freebsd-bin-xps. Contribute to NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-bin-xps development by creating an account on GitHub.
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notes

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GitHub - NapoleonWils0n/cerberus: cerberus code library

cerberus code library. Contribute to NapoleonWils0n/cerberus development by creating an account on GitHub.
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youtube

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NapoleonWils0n

Command line tips and tricks for linux, mac and unix
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no problem mate
they are all my tutorials

i have dwl working on the following machines

macbook air 2011 - 11 inch

macbook pro retina 2015 - 13 inch

dell xps 2019 - 15 inch

give me a shout if you get stuck on anything
 
Yes, you're right power on / off is the correct syntax, but I'm still unable to get the one monitor to come back on.

I've tried:

swaymsg "output DP-2 power on"
swaymsg "output * power on"

Only the 1 monitor turns on for whatever reason.
 
Awesome, this is working for me now! I'm not sure if it is because of FBSD 15 or what, but great, now I can use sway. That was the last hurdle.
 
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