Re: How to run (if possible at all) Wayland compositor on FreeBSD without Xorg
Greg V <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Denis Polygalov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have: > 11.2-RELEASE + > drm-stable-kmod + > graphics/mesa-libs compiled from ports with Wayland support enabled + > graphics/wayland installed from packages + > graphics/qt5-wayland compiled from ports > Weston compiled from source manually. > > I am able to run Weston or minimal Wayland compositor from > qt5-wayland examples, but only if I do this from inside > of Xorg session (xterm). > Attempt to run from console lead to: "Could not connect to any X > display" error message. > As far as I understand this calling syntax: > $ ./some_exe -platform wayland > is intended to be used only for Wayland *clients* not compositors. > > Is it possible to run any Wayland *compositor* without Xorg running? > How this configured? Which software is responsible for this? > Sorry if this is wrong place to ask... Hi, the Big Deal here is that starting a wayland compositor requires something to provide access to GPU and input devices. The big compositors (GNOME Shell, KDE KWin) rely on logind, which we don't have. For Weston, there is a setuid binary called 'weston-launch' that works. Sway and other wlroots based compositors also have something similar, I forget already. So: - Install libinput from my ports (https://github.com/myfreeweb/freebsd-ports-dank/tree/master/x11/libinput) - Install Weston from my fork (https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston) - Add yourself to the 'weston-launch' group - Make sure the 'weston-launch' binary is suid and owned by root - Make sure you have an 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR' in the environment - Put your favorite keyboard settings into the environment e.g. 'export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=colemak XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL=pc101 XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=evdev XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps,ctrl:lctrl_meta,compose:ralt,grp:alt_space_toggle"' - Run 'weston-launch'! The libinput in my ports has this patch https://github.com/myfreeweb/freebsd-ports-dank/blob/master/x11/libinput/files/patch-src_evdev.c.reopen which should fix /dev permissions issues. If that doesn't work, or you decide not to use it, give yourself read+write permissions on /dev/tty*, /dev/input/*, /dev/dri/*, /dev/drm/*. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"