(Question) Does GNOME support Wayland on FreeBSD?

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FalseInquisition

I was planning on running GNOME on Wayland but I don't see anything on if it's supported yet and didn't see a simple way to just enable it in GNOME, did I miss something or does it just not support Wayland on FreeBSD yet?
 
My guess (only a guess as I don't use it on FreeBSD or Linux) is that it does, since both Gnome and Wayland are heavily supported by RedHat. In RedHat's latest iteration, RHEL10, there's only Wayland, no X (though there is XWayland), and the default desktop in their Server With GUI which is their default, is Gnome. But how you'd enable it in a currently running Gnome on X is beyond my knowledge. (Maybe try in a bhyve VM and see?)
 
Ogis said:
I don't see any problem with that. The main thing is that it works without errors. For example, Oracle Linux Gnome version is 40.4. And it works perfectly.
I don't think chasing versions is a good thing. Stability is the most important thing.
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Well, if asked for GNOME-on-Wayland and Wayland is a bleeding edge technology (even if it's some 15+ years old). Hence my answer.
 
fmc000 said:
Wayland is a bleeding edge technology
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Yes, I agree, but the latest is not necessarily the greatest. I will repeat that Oracle Linux Gnome with a wayland session works stably. It is possible that the authors of the Gnome port have good reasons not to chase innovations...
 
scottro said:
RHEL10, there's only Wayland, no X (though there is XWayland)
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There is only Gnome. No other Wayland compositors either. They (correctly) removed all flexibility so they can minimize the amount of software they need to provide support for to maximize income.

That is why RHEL is a bit of a special case and doesn't really represent the state of the open-source world (especially outside of Linux). Almost every other distro has a wide selection of compositors and X11 WMs.

(I don't think the Solaris 11 Gnome developers are really focusing on enabling Wayland either (too busy filling out their P45s ;)
 
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