Wayland 1.23 Released With OpenBSD Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland 1.23 Released With OpenBSD Support

Simon Ser today released Wayland 1.23 for this core Wayland code that brings some minor enhancements, bug fixes, and Wayland protocol clarifications...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.23-Released

[hedonist]

This is great news, im glad that the BSD's can now enjoy the benefits of a modern display stack. Death to x11!

[Hazel]

X11 is already dead, we are just buring it.

[M@GOid]

Oh noes. The horror...

[NeoMorpheus]

Sorry for the dumb question, does FreeBSD has Wayland access or still on X?

[andyprough]

X11 is already dead, we are just buring it.

Burying it in a billion Xorg xservers that are called via Xwayland to replace all the functionality in all the packages that Wayland does not and can not work with natively.

[furtadopires]

I never used any BSD distro, but I'm very happy to see they have the alternative to use wayland nowadays. I remember back then the talk of how BSDs wouldn't be able to use it, which was one of the real problems with Wayland, but fortunately this isn't the case anymore.

[bple2137]

Sorry for the dumb question, does FreeBSD has Wayland access or still on X?

Looks like it does https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/

[luno]

Sorry for the dumb question, does FreeBSD has Wayland access or still on X?

it does, there is also https://hikari.acmelabs.space/ for FreeBSD, works pretty well in Linux too

[Luke_Wolf]

I never used any BSD distro, but I'm very happy to see they have the alternative to use wayland nowadays. I remember back then the talk of how BSDs wouldn't be able to use it, which was one of the real problems with Wayland, but fortunately this isn't the case anymore.

That was mostly pushed by same uninformed people who spend all their time shitting on systemd and wasn't strictly speaking true back then either. Wayland is just a protocol you could implement it on Windows if you so chose.

In so far as there is an issue as such, it's that the BSDs lack manpower and X11 is a giant sprawling monster that touches basically everything... so when the Desktop Environments started becoming Wayland compositorsthey had to invent new ways to do things like manage seats, handle input, etc, etc, etc... but strictly speaking this had nothing to do with Wayland per se and everything to do with removing the hard dependency on X11... The problem for the BSDs was that these solutions to removing X11 entirely involved Linux developers targeting Linux with no thought at all given to running on anything else. This created quite a bit of havoc for running even X11 KDE and GNOME on the BSDs and was one of the big reasons that PC-BSD(Aka TrueOS) decided to switch from using KDE to writing their own BSD focused desktop environment before it eventually died off. It did eventually get sorted back out again but just like in Linux there's a loud vocal community of UNIX neckbeards who scream bloody murder if you dare give them software that's different than what they're using today, and need I commentate on the sheer irony of systemd haters in FreeBSD given their chief complaint is systemd has centralized and subsumed the basic Linux OS components into providing a base system...