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It's Possible To Run (X)Wayland On DragonFlyBSD

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 20 May 2016 at 11:13 AM EDT. 8 Comments

It's possible to get XWayland running on DragonFlyBSD if you want to experience Wayland/Weston outside of Linux.

A DragonFlyBSD developer was successful in rebuilding the X.Org Server with XWayland support, used the i915 Intel DRM/KMS driver for display, and launched Wayland's Weston with the Pixman renderer.

So far he's been rather impressed with running Wayland/Weston on DragonFly, "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."

Details via this mailing list post.

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