Wayland/Weston with XWayland works on DragonFly

[Carsten Mattner]

If you have time, can you test Enlightenment with their Wayland
compositor and report back?

You may have to build from GIT, but they have instructions/scripts
for that.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:47 PM, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tested KDE in the sense of running a KDE application (kile) using
> XWayland. It's like using GNOME or XFCE or MATE to run a KDE
> application.
>
> Running a full fledged KDE with XWayland (startkde4) did not go well;
> basically you already have a minimal native DE, i.e. Weston, and then
> you run another DE, i.e. KDE on top of XWayaland --- KDE was
> unusuable, even kile did not start; whereas running just kile as
> above, i.e. just as an application with Weston gave a functional app.
>
> The KDE effort to rewrite KDE for Wayland is documented here
>
> https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland
>
> As far as I understand all of the major desktop environments are
> currently in transition of adding native support to Wayland. Until
> this is done, that is, until they do not run natively under Wayland
> one has to use a compatibility backend like XWayland to run
> applications that rely on Xorg.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peeter
>
> --
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:08 PM, PeerCorps Trust Fund
> <ipc at peercorpstrust.org> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> This is quite interesting. Have you tested KDE at all with that
>> configuration?
>>
>>
>> On 05/20/2016 04:05 PM, karu.pruun wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> So I compiled Xorg with XWayland support and got it working: many
>>> applications that need Xorg work now with wayland/weston. Basically,
>>> Xwayland is the "Xorg" for applications that need Xorg; it's a
>>> compatibility option as long as an application does not work with
>>> wayland/weston directly.
>>>
>>> I followed directions on this page:
>>>
>>> https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
>>>
>>> and recompiled x11-servers/xorg-server with options given on that
>>> page. It does not compile cleanly but complains about a missing
>>> file/library; so before compiling, don't uninstall your xorg-server
>>> yet. When the error occurs, I manually copied the file to the build
>>> directory in /usr/obj/. . . (see what is the file and the directory in
>>> error message) and then remove the xorg-server package. Then "make
>>> install" worked fine. (Someone know how to fix this issue?) I then
>>> used the attached weston.ini (save to ~/.config/ and edit paths of
>>> files like background etc) and manually created
>>>
>>>> mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix
>>>
>>>
>>> and then (from webapage
>>> https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DeltaPorts/pull/123)
>>>
>>>> sudo kldload i915
>>>> mkdir /tmp/wayland_xdg
>>>> chmod 0700 /tmp/wayland_xdg
>>>> env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/wayland_xdg weston-launch -- --use-pixman
>>>
>>>
>>> Applications that seem to work and are stable (there might more but
>>> haven't tried):
>>>
>>> gtk3:
>>>    - gedit
>>>    - nautilus
>>>    - evince
>>>
>>> xfce4:
>>>    - xfce4-terminal
>>>    - atril
>>>
>>> - firefox
>>> - spyder
>>> - scilab
>>> - kile (crashes first but works when launched again)
>>>
>>> Doesn't work:
>>>    - chrome (segfault)
>>>
>>> Weston is quite minimalistic but does provide a stable working
>>> environment. No tearing and runs smoothly:
>>>
>>> weston:
>>>    - has workspaces (switch: super + F1, F2 etc)
>>>    - a panel with launchers
>>>    - switch between apps: super (or ctrl) + tab
>>>    - but: no tray for minimized apps: they can be brought back by
>>> switching between apps
>>>    - Copy-paste works in X and between X and weston
>>>      - X cursor could be better configured?
>>>
>>> In summary: I am very much impressed. On this machine, wayland/weston
>>> feels faster than X. It's stable, or at least so far. With Xorg I
>>> can't switch between VT and graphical screen more than twice; the
>>> screen hangs after two switches. With Wayland it just works.
>>>
>>> I wonder if one might get a minimal DE like Maynard running. It seems
>>> to need wayland support in gtk30.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Peeter
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>