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wayback-0.3

X11 compat layer for running full X11 desktop environments

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Description

Wayback is a X11 compatibility layer which allows for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components. It is essentially a stub compositor which provides just enough Wayland capabilities to host a rootful Xwayland server. It is intended to eventually replace the classic X.Org server, thus reducing maintenance burden of X11 applications, but a lot of work needs to be done first. Wayback is an experimental state: expect breaking changes, and lots of bugs. To run wayback on OpenBSD use a wrapper like this one: #! /bin/ksh set -eu : ${WLR_DRM_DEVICES:=/dev/dri/card0} : ${LIBSEAT_BACKEND:=noop} : ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:=${HOME}/.local/run} export WLR_DRM_DEVICES LIBSEAT_BACKEND XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if [ ! -d $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ]; then mkdir -m 700 -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR fi exec ${PREFIX}/bin/wayback-session $*

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Ports path
wayland/wayback
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
wayland
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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