From: Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: NEW: wayland/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
To: Christoph Liebender <christoph@liebender.dev>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 09:48:36 +0100

Le Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 06:33:26PM +0100, Christoph Liebender a écrit :
> On 12/30/25 19:33, 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,
> > > > 
> 
> Hi, I'm excited to see that this port is seeing some activity again!
> 
> I've just gave it a spin, couple things I have noticed:
> 
> - the "mouse buttons" of my Thinkpad x280's touchpad are not working; though
> I am not sure if this is related to the port or the wayland implementation
> of OpenBSD. I have to actually press on the touchpad itself to issue clicks.

depending on the implems and how you start niri, you might need to chown
/dev/wsmouse1 (or 2, 3, etc..) to your user. i've added wsmouse1 to
/etc/fbtab, and i have both the clit and the touchpad working.

> - alacritty does not launch, I have to resort to using foot instead. I get
> an error saying NotSupported("provided display handle is not supported")

alacritty never worked properly on wayland/OpenBSD. iirc something deep
in glsomething.. see
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=174081481613987&w=2

maybe due to the fact that mesa isnt linked with wayland on OpenBSD.

Landry