Setting up Wayland on FreeBSD

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks so very much for this insight as it will be very helpful.

Cheers and have a great day,
Lonnie

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:22 AM Ashish SHUKLA <ashish at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 7/23/20 5:16 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> >
> > Well, I am making good progress with my new experiences in the FreeBSD
> > world and now it's time to get back on my project a bit.
>
> Following information is what I referred to when I setup Wayland on mine:
>
> https://unrelenting.technology/kb/FreeBSDDesktop
> https://hub.darcs.net/raichoo/hikari
>
> And I use following script (analogous to startx of X11 world) to launch
> a Wayland desktop session:
>
> ================================================================
> #!/bin/sh
>
>
> export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
> export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/$USER/.xdg
> export CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland
> export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
> export LIBGL_DRI3_ENABLE=1
> export XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=evdev
> export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl
> export QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION=1
> export BEMENU_BACKEND=wayland
> export WLR_DRM_NO_ATOMIC=1
>
> [ -d $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ] || mkdir -m 700 -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
>
> #WM=wayfire
> #WM=sway
> WM=hikari
>
>
> exec $WM >$HOME/.xsession-errors 2>&1
> ================================================================
>
> Important part, make sure /tmp is not a ZFS mountpoint. I've it on tmpfs
> filesystem.
>
> HTH
> --
> Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682CDCC39DC0FEAE11620B6C746CFA9E74FA4B0
>
> “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” (Ken
> Olson, founder of DEC, 1977)
>
>