Re: Does either Gnome or KDE support Wayland on FreeBSD? [EOM]
Greg V <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Grzegorz Junka <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/07/2018 21:48, Greg V wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Grzegorz Junka <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 30/06/2018 20:37, Johannes Lundberg wrote: >>>> I don’t know about Gnome or KDE but GTK3 apps work with Wayland. >>>> It needs ports built with custom options though. >>>> >>> >>> Building ports isn't a problem, however I don't understand how >>> particular apps can work with Wayland. I thought that they would >>> need to run inside Weston or some other compositor, which in turn >>> runs on Wayland? Is the X server in that configuration running as >>> a Wayland client with with the GTK3 apps running outside of the X >>> server (i.e. are managed by the compositor directly)? >> >> Yes, you can run them inside e.g. Weston or Sway. >> >> Compositors don't run "on" Wayland, Wayland is a protocol. >> The compositor is the display server, it implements the server side >> of Wayland. >> (Compositors can run in windowed mode under X or under another >> Wayland compositor, for development/debugging purposes.) >> >> For backwards compatibility, the X server is indeed running as a >> Wayland client, this is called Xwayland, this is optional. >> >> About KDE: I think KDE's kwin_wayland is available now too, but I'm >> not sure if it would run directly as the main display server (not >> windowed mode) right now on FreeBSD without additional patches >> (because of vt/session management stuff -- though maybe ConsoleKit2 >> might work?). >> > > Thanks Greg for the clarification. Let me rephrase it to see if I got > it right. Currently FreeBSD supports Wayland compositor in windowed > mode under X and this is how the GTK3 applications are running. It > might support Wayland as the main display server (not windowed), i.e. > using KDE's kwin_wayland, but the status is currently not known. I'm currently running Weston as the main display server, so that is known :) Well, my fork of weston actually: https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston Sway 0.x also worked, 1.x (master) should work too, unless they broke something. The only unknown is KDE KWin ("might just work with ConsoleKit2?"). I guess I should look into that, but I'm busy with other stuff.. GNOME is definitely not supported ("needs patching to support ConsoleKit2 or some other alternative to systemd-logind"). That's actually the main porting issue in general, many compositors use logind, some (like gnome) *only* use logind. > If that's correct, then assuming that I compiled my ports with > support for Wayland enabled, and assuming further that I have 11.2 > installed, what else would I need to do to be able to test this? > > I guess I need to compile and install drm-next-kmod or > drm-stable-kmod. Will either work on generic 11.2 or I need a custom > kernel? I guess again that the later should work with the generic > kernel but it will only supports Polaris Radeon cards. If I recall > correctly Hans Petter Selasky was working on merging support for > Radeon Vega (Linux kernel 4.15) into 11-STABLE (future 11.3). If that > is correct and the merge was completed then I could compile a custom > 11-STABLE kernel and together with the 11.2 userland be able to test > windowed Wayland on Vega? For windowed mode, you don't need anything special. But for *anything on Vega*, you do need drm-next-kmod. LinuxKPI updates required for drm-next-kmod 4.15 have indeed been merged into 11-STABLE: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=335436 Vega support is still not as stable as <=Polaris, btw: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues/76 https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues/71 > Please correct if my guesses are wrong. Sorry for all those questions > but without the updated wiki it gets a bit confusing :) > GrzegorzJ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"