wayland

Building Mango wm from source on Freebsd to get the latest version Mango wm is in part based on the dwl window manager and has the following advantages you dont need to recompile when you make changes, per tag layouts, 14 different layouts built in, trackpad support for switching tags I...

I am yet to get screen sharing to work in KDE plasma wayland session. Tried it with both firefox and chromium. It initially complains about missing pipewire and after running pipewire in konsole, the browser does offer the options to choose what to share (entire desktop, a selected window, a...

The GTX 770M is based on NVIDIA's Kepler architecture. Kepler support was officially dropped after the 470.xx legacy driver series. It cannot use the modern 5xx series drivers. Modern Wayland compositors (Sway, Hyprland, Wayfire, Labwc, modern GNOME/KDE) require GBM (Generic Buffer Management)...

After upgrading recently, there was nvidia related updates,kmods and stuff and i believe it overwrited my build..Everything is here.. nvidia-drm.ko loaded drm.ko loaded nvidia.ko loaded nvidia-modeset.ko loaded hw.nvidiadrm.modeset: 1 seatd_enable: YES but on sddm i dont see Wayland option...

dwl 0.9 Wayland tiling window manager is out as pointed out by scottro https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl/releases Added Add axis mouse bindings (#652) Add support for the ext-data-control protocol (#1184) Add support for the ext-foreign-toplevel-list...

So as for now, wayland dosent work well with my nvidia card, and i wonder if i can wait till wayland improves, and lock the last kde plasma packages 6.7.5(when they will be available) and stay on X11, till wayland will be fully functional.

Hello there! I'm thinking on changing my terminal, not because I'm unhappy with it or it doesn't fit my needs but because I'm looking for the best for wayland/wayfire without dragging thousands of code lines for X11 compatibility. I was initially using xfce4-terminal when using X11 but then I...

For information purposes only, this post is about my personal experience installing FreeBSD 14.4 and 15 on my two laptops: a Dell G15 (13th Gen Intel Core i5) with Hybrid Graphics / Advanced Optimus (Intel Graphics + GeForce RTX 3050) and a basic Dell Inspiron (12th Gen Intel Core i3) with Intel...

waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible. On Freebsd doas pkg install waypipe On...

dwl v0.8 tiling window install on Freebsd using wlroots019 In this video i cover changes you should make to dwl to build on Freebsd, and settings to increase the scroll speed, set up your keyboard layout with xkb, getting the volumes keys to work as well as useful package you should install...

is sway+wayland+fcitx5 best for freebsd?

Hey... The new version of x11/sfwbar (1.0-beta17) has added pipewire as dependency (I have an upgraded port locally). There were discussions about having a 'nopulse' flavor here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285476 So I would like to gather some thoughts about how to handle...

hello. I hope this doesn't touch the forum rules (closing not exists posts, mentions about other os-es). I'm a linux daily driver who wants to test FreeBSD. The goal is to check the performance difference and maturity of freebsd's wayland environment compared to Linux. So I tried installing...

Greetings to all! Anamnesis Installing a clean system from a FreeBSD 15.0 bootonly image. sysctl machdep.bootmethod machdep.bootmethod: UEFI dmesg | grep -E "VT\(|drmfb|efifb" VT(efifb): resolution 2560x1440 freebsd-version -kur 15.0-RELEASE-p4 15.0-RELEASE-p4 15.0-RELEASE-p4 uname -a...

Hello folks. I've recently out of curiosity tried to install FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on Macbook Pro 2015 mid (macbook 11,4 model, to be exact), it's the model with only one iGPU, not the dual variant. So, graphics seem to be stuck using only software rendering. I've experienced a similar issue...

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment. It used to work on xorg. These days,It's starting to support wayland,that's cool! Let me tell you how to config it! 1.Make sure that you had already installed the graphic cards drivers. 2.Add the user to video group. # pw groupmod video -m username...

Hi, everyone! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, installed it about a month ago on Thinkpad x200, and I've noticed some weird quirks with Wayland using Plasma DE, not sure if it's my user error in setting something up or if wayland has some bugs with graphics on FreeBSD on this exact machine, but...

CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Motherboard: Asus ROG X670E Hero GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p1 (pkgbase) 1. In SDDM, keyboard and mouse doesn't work 2. In SDDM, Hyprland doesn't show up. Instead, it only shows "User Session" at top-left. Should I switch to gdm or lightdm...

In Plasma settings under Display & Monitor > Adaptive Sync you can select "Never" and it will prevent signal drop outs on video signal. Was having this issue on one of my systems with a USB powered display. Hope that's helpful.