From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: [new] wayland/cagebreak
To: ports@openbsd.org, landry@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:29:52 +0100

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 07:44:14PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> 
> Here's cagebreak, a compositor for wayland that looks and feels very
> similar to x11/raptoison.  I have very little experience running
> wayland stuff under OpenBSD but it seems to just work when started
> from ttyC0.  It ships xwayland support, which maybe explains why I can
> run firefox out of the box?

Nowadays, Firefox run as a native Wayland application unless you set
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 explicitely.
> 
> Thoughts?  ok?

I would amnd the start script a bit

 > #! /bin/ksh
 > set -eu
 > 
 > : ${WLR_DRM_DEVICES:=/dev/dri/card0}
 > : ${LIBSEAT_BACKEND:=noop}
This one is not needed anymore. landry@ has provided a patch to make
it the default in libseat.

 > : ${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP:=sway}

s/sway/cagebreak/ ? Or did you find applications that work better with
the 'sway' value ?

 > : ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:=${HOME}/.local/run}

I think it's time to start removing those settings from wayland start
scripts.

 > : ${QT_QPA_PLATFORM:=wayland}
 > #: MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND:=1 # doesn't work yet
 I'd remove this line
 > 
 > export WLR_DRM_DEVICES LIBSEAT_BACKEND
 > export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
 > export QT_QPA_PLATFORM
 > 
 > if [ ! -d "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}" ]; then
 >     mkdir -m 700 -p "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
 > fi
 > 
 > exec /usr/local/bin/cagebreak "$@"
 > 

-- 
Matthieu Herrb