On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 07:33:05PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Le Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 03:21:56PM +0100, Tobias Heider a écrit :
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 05:13:07PM +0100, Tobias Heider wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > here is a new port for niri [1], a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
> > > heavily inspired by the PaperWM extension for Gnome.
> > > 
> > > This one is a little different than our existing wayland compositor ports
> > > since it doesn't use wlroots but smithay [2] as its underlying compositor
> > > library.
> > > 
> > > Smithay is written in rust and pulls in quite a few dependencies, I had to
> > > resort to some hacks to make it pick up the patched OpenBSD compatible
> > > versions since most patches haven't found their way into an upstream release
> > > yet. In the current version I fetch niri itself and all the patched
> > > dependencies from my forked trees on github. I already got some of them
> > > merged upstream so I'm optimistic that we can swtich over to an official
> > > release in the near future.
> > > 
> > > Looking forward to get some feedback.
> > > 
> > > Some open questions:
> > > Is there a better way to handle the rust dependencies?
> > > Would it make sense for a large rust package such as smithay to be a separate
> > > port?
> > > I used upstream_version.date for our port version, is there a better solution?
> > > 
> > > [1] https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
> > > [2] https://github.com/Smithay/smithay
> > 
> > Updated it to 25.11 and thought I'd share it here for anyone interested.
> > 
> > The garbled output after exiting niri seems to be fixed and I managed to
> > upstream a bunch of patches in dependencies. The port is still fetching from
> > my github though and is using drm-rs and smithay from my patched forks.
> > 
> > One open issue is that xwayland-satellite will crash niri after a while,
> > I am still trying to figure out why.
> 
> heh, and i thought it was already imported...
> 
> LIB_DEPENDS =	devel/llvm/21
> 
> and you have the MODCARGO lines pointing at libLLVM.so commented out..
> are you sure that LIB_DEPENDS is needed ? if so im not sure that cant
> lead to other issues in ports.
> 
> note that startniri.sh should be updated now that we have proper support
> for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
> 
> with those fixed i'd be inclined to ok it so that you can maintain it in
> tree, and itd be good to have non-wlroots implems to play with :)
> 
> Landry

I removed the llvm references, fixed startniri.sh and added a bit about the
render-drm-device configuration in pkg/README. I was hoping I could fix it
but that turned out to be harder than expected so documenting the quirk
for now is probably the easier way to unblock this.

ok?

• niri-25.11.tar.gz (36K)