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Work has already begun to get Wayland working on OpenBSD. With the major toolkit and DE projects removing X support in upcoming releases, even Xenocara's long-t
by bitwize 3y ago
Work has already begun to get Wayland working on OpenBSD. With the major toolkit and DE projects removing X support in upcoming releases, even Xenocara's long-term relevance is very much in doubt.
- bandrami 3y agoNot really. Matthieu's done some work to almost get it usable, but if there's been any talk of ever taking it out of ports and into the base system it hasn't happened on any public mailing lists. Given that xenocara is rootless and pledged there's not really a security argument for it, and there just isn't that much interest from the team, at least not that they've expressed. Also OpenBSD doesn't have Linux's weird insistence that a process somehow can't find out who owns a display, which makes a lot of Wayland's model kind of pointless on the platform.
- bandrami 3y agoI suppose OpenBSD might not ever have a GTK5 desktop if GTK5 for whatever reason drops X11 as a target (remember they still support DirectFB) but I don't think that's really a showstopper since users seem to prefer cwm anyways.