Setting up Wayland (Weston or Sway Compositor) on FreeBSD without X11 (Xorg)?

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks Pete,

I am looking into them now to see if they could be of some use for my goals.

Truly appreciate your response.
Cheers,
Lonnie


On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 7/21/20 6:56 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I hope that everyone is doing well and truly hope that someone can help
> me
> > on this as I have no idea how to proceed.
> >
> > I need a super ultra-thin graphic interface that will run a single
> > application in fullscreen mode much like a Kiosk.
> >
> > The challenge is that Xorg is entirely too big and read that you could
> run
> > Wayland using a compositor without Xorg which may be promising, but I do
> > not know yet.
> >
> > The truth is that my core FreeBSD is coming in at about 30MB and now I
> > would like to put a GUI on it to support the single application while
> > hoping to try and also keep the total size absolutely as low as possible.
> > If I could keep the whole thing under 100MB then that would be awesome,
> but
> > I do not know if this can be done.
> >
> > In any case, the application FreeRDP and is supposed to have a Wayland
> > client.  I also tried to look into DirectFB (Direct Framebuffer) and see
> > that FreeBSD can load it from the "pkg" system for which is says that it
> > also loads
> >
> > wayland-1.18.0_3               Wayland composite "server"
> >
> > but when I tried to run the freerdp wfreerdp wayland client from the text
> > screen, it says:
> >
> > failed to connect to Wayland display (null): no such file or directory
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions or advice on how I might proceed either
> > with Wayland or some even some other possible solution?
>
> you probably need to install a Wayland display manager like sway or hikari:
> https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/sway/
> https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/hikari/
>
> both of these will probably require puling in some Xorg dependencies
> though (for input devices iirc).
>
> anyway taking a look at those as a starting point would probably be a
> good first step, get them working then focus on stripping out what you
> don't deem necessary to minimize your footprint.
>
> -pete
>
> --
> Pete Wright
> pete at nomadlogic.org
> @nomadlogicLA
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