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 10:18:42 +0100

Le Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 09:48:36AM +0100, Landry Breuil a écrit :
> Le Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 06:33:26PM +0100, Christoph Liebender a écrit :
> > On 12/30/25 19:33, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > - 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.

confirmed, i've just retested and with mesa linked against wayland (with
the hack from https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=176304756414309&w=2)
alacritty starts fine on wayland.

Landry