Wayland/sway binary package available

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Hello Matthieu, congrats to all of you that is making Wayland true on OpenBSD..


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Dec 5, 2023 08:45:23 Matthieu Herrb :

> In the latest amd64 packages snapshot there is now a #sway package (other
> arches will follow).
> 
> Installing it allows you to try #Wayland on OpenBSD.

Wayland/sway binary package available

[Matthieu Herrb]

Hi,

In the latest amd64 packages snapshot there is now a #sway package (other
arches will follow).

Installing it allows you to try #Wayland on OpenBSD.  Just run the provided
startsway.sh script from a text console after stopping xenodm if X was
running.
See the sway(1) and sway(5) manual pages for details and /etc/sway/config
for the default key bindings.

For now only a few applications will display using Wayland natively. All
others will use Xwayland(1) automatically. In particular the provided sway
config will use xterm(1) as a terminal.

Also note that there are several known limitations that you don't need to
report again:
- no pointer accelleration
- no VT switching
- keyboard and/or pointer dont work after suspend/resume

This is to be considered as highly experimental and not production-ready.
Try it at your own risks.
-- 
Matthieu Herrb