I'm curious because it's a pretty unique combination with Wayland on FreeBSD. I've taken a look from time to time but never tried it myself (and I have to admit that I'm not even running FreeBSD yet, because I wanted to wait for "13" to give it a first spin on my new laptop).
For me the...
Adrian De Groot wrote this Blog post about his recent work on KDE on Wayland for FreeBSD.
I'm hyped to see the updates coming in pkg repo so one can enjoy a Wayland desktop experience on FreeBSD.
Prerequisites are
FREEBSD 13.0 64
Intel l915kms
Disabling sddm.
**Edit:**
As of 2021-05-13 with...
Before I just blow away my FreeBSD 13 Virtual Box instance, I thought I would check in with the gurus. I have been experimenting with FreeBSD 13 in VBox for a day. I used caution and bectl'd my way to a working system that had KDE installed. I removed my last bectl and then...
I too hastily...
i have remove and reinstall sway , but the problem is same, i run sway and the mouse could move but the keyboard is not work even if i use ctrl+alt+F3 , I still can not switch to other vt, i just only way that rebot my laptop.
i use freebsd 12.2
Hi everyone,
After successfully setup my workstation (FreeBSD 12.1/drm-kmod binary), i tried to install FreeBSD 12.2 on my Lenovo T495.
When i try to launch sway -d i get the following error:
00:00:00.000 [sway/main.c:326] Sway version 1.5.1
00:00:00.002 [sway/main.c:153] FreeBSD...
There was one good thing about IBM, Microsoft and Intel business activities in the past. Their goal was clear: to gain more market share, make more money and total annihilation of competitors. However nowadays it's a completely different story, especially in the open source and free software...
First of all, where is wayland forum(there's X.Org forum, but I couldn't find wayland forum)
Do I need to instal xorg to use wayland or I should install wayland only?
What's the name of wayland pkg? Just 'sudo pkg install wayland"?
The sequence how to install gnome on wayland
Is Nvidia is better...
Can't find the tutorial! no any news and signal! But we see that the latest versions of Wayland and Plasma are already available in ports. How to make them work properly? How are things now?
That sentence caught my eye in the blog post Announcing the release of sway 1.0 by Drew DeVault, because I could not find any further information, tutorial or blog posts about installing, configuring and using Sway on FreeBSD.
Everything including the especially created tools (except one) is...
I found that I can compile a wayland client.
https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland
The example above requires:
# pkg install ImageMagick7
# pkg install wayland-protocols
The usual edits to the Makefile apply - add "-I/usr/local/include" and "-L/usr/local/lib" to CFLAGS. Throw in a...
Hi,
Total noob here. I installed FreeBSD yesterday and would like to install Sway - the Wayland-based compositor and window manager.
I have installed the X Window System and can run i3 without any apparent issues but, if possible, I would like to run my graphical environment on top of Wayland...
Sway is a wayland tiling window manager that is intend as replacement for i3wm
The i3wm tiling window manager is as the French would say "les couettes des chiens"
Sway requires Wayland,
running pkg search wayland returns these results
kf5-kwayland-5.56.0 KF5 Client and Server...
Hey guys :)
Has anyone installed x11-wm/sway successfully on FreeBSD?
How can I install it? And are there any instructions on how to install it?
Thanks in advance :D
Hello,
On FreeBSD 13.0 with FreeBSD generic 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r342707 GENERIC arm64, there is currently the following results. It may be related.
- midori (wayland,..): crashes
- netsurf (gtk3, wayland,...): crashes
- chrome (wayland,...): crashes
- Dillo: no wayland: working...
Hello,
I would like to avoid as much as possible wayland for the graphical (Xorg) installation.
Which possibilities might be given to exclude wayland during pkg install Xorg?
Thank you so much in advance!!
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EDIT: wayland 1.16
FreeBSD 13. release
I saw some recent activities in regards to Wayland in the ports. For example graphics/poppler, graphics/cairo and graphics/mesa-libs depend on Wayland since a week or so. Does this mean, that we can easily replace X11 by Wayland on FreeBSD already?
Searching for "Wayland + FreeBSD“ gave nothing...
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