Re: Sway, Wayland, and Xwayland

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 14:23 Greg V <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 19:24, Johannes Lundberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 6/10/19 7:03 PM, Jan Beich wrote:
> >>  (CC'ing appropriate public list. I don't help privately.)
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> >>  Dale Brazelton <[email protected]> writes:
> >>
> >>> I've managed to get Sway working but am
> >>>  unable to get any X11 apps to work thru xwayland. For instance if I
> >>>  start sway and then start firefox from my terminal app (alacritty)
> >>>  nothing happens.
> >>
> >>  Did you change any port options in x11-wm/sway or one of its
> >> dependencies?
> >>  Did you define LIBGL_DRI3_ENABLE=1 in environ(7) to avoid llvmpipe
> >> fallback?
> >>  Does $DISPLAY in alacritty session and Xwayland 1st argument in
> >> ps(1) match?
> >>  Can you show "sway -d" output? IIRC, Sway starts Xwayland on first
> >> use.
> >>  Can you try "firefox --new-instance --profile $(mktemp -dt
> >> ffprofile)"?
> > Other simple X apps like xclock, or even glxgears that need Xwayland
> > run
> > but are not displayed. The window seem to be  simply hidden. IIRC
> > there
> > was a fix to this but I can't remember what that was. I tried
> > enable/disable DRI3 but to no success...
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> Xwayland windows not displaying is the good old ioctl permission thing:
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> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues/33#issuecomment-422793245
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>  ^^^ maybe it's time to merge my workaround since no one's found the
> root cause ^^^


Thanks for the reminder!! 😁
I think no one has looked for the root cause yet. I’ll put it next on my
todo list for the big 5.0 cleanup/fix up.


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