9 Mar
2024
9 Mar
'24
6:16 a.m.
Michael Huff <mphuff(a)gmail.com> writes:
I thought most desktops (specifically Xfce, GNOME,
KDE) required
Wayland and SystemD these days? Wouldn't that rule out *BSD?
i'm not a user of any of those three myself, but as far as i'm
aware, none of those three currently require Wayland. But GNOME is
certainly pushing people towards use of Mutter (the GNOME Wayland
compositor), while:
It is not clear yet which Xfce release will target a
complete
Xfce Wayland transition (or if such a transition will happen at
all). Below is a list of larger tasks which would need to be
done in some way for such a transition to occur.
--
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap
In terms of Wayland on *BSDs, there's active work being done to
get the Wayland ecosystem working on OpenBSD:
"Towards running a Wayland Compositor on OpenBSD"
--
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2023-matthieu-wayland-openbsd.pdf
The author of that talk, Matthieu Herrb, is an X dev:
https://www.x.org/wiki/MatthieuHerrb/
Alexis.