Mastodawn

quickly tested #wayland with #sway on #openbsd:

browsers are 2-3% faster than in #xenocara

trackpad and trackpoint are not working as expected

whole setup a bit more complicated (starting from tty0, installing extra packages, extra line in fbtab, etc)

for this week at least i'm switching back to good old #x11 and #cwm :)

VlkrS (@[email protected])

@[email protected] check /etc/fbtab - does it contain /dev/dri/card0 and /dev/dri/renderD128 if not, it should (https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/checkout/src/etc/etc.amd64/fbtab,v?rev=1.9) ... and you need login from ttyC0. Firefox scrolling will probably be fixed with a pkg update the next few days. For now, try disabling soft scrolling.

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izzy Mar 6

hot take, I feel xorg is here to stay despite its supposed technical flaws. i don't buy the propoganda that FDO is trying to "kill" it. they still maintain it, albeit with no new features, plenty of projects such as xenocara work with them and upstream fixes as need be. also, x11 is pretty dang featureful as it is tbh. besides, that enrico weigelt guy is certainly not "saving" anything considering his development track record.

#xorg #x11 #xenocara #xlibre

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KielKontrovers Blog Dec 15

@XLibreDev Ii guess it would make sense to cooperate more with OpenBSD and #Xenocara. They say they dont fork, But they depend on Xorg.

[Nate ~]#

Nov 14

https://imgur.com/a/JyQh7UY

https://github.com/anathonous/openbsd-xenodm-themes/

made/modified an openbsd xenodm theme.

#openbsd #unix #login #theme #style #xenocara #xenodm

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JdeBP Jun 22, 2025

@passthejoe @strlcat @dvandal @david_chisnall @davidgerard

On the contrary, they've all done one switch already, about a decade before systemd came along in the Linux-based world.

#NetBSD pioneered a major switch in rc at the turn of the century, with Mewburn rc, which #FreeBSD followed two years later. #OpenBSD has a similar, but incompatible, system that it switched to.

In further contrast, OpenBSD has run with #Xenocara.

#rc

Peter N. M. Hansteen Jun 10, 2025

TearFree option backported to modesetting(4) driver https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250610065042 #openbsd #xenocara #modesetting #tearfree #xorg #xwindows #graphics #freesofware #libresoftware

TearFree option backported to modesetting(4) driver

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Morgan Aldridge Aug 2, 2024

@requiem I'm _very_ interested in testing the new VAAPI support in #OpenBSD -current's #Xenocara (#X11) and various packages (which I think are starting to land in snapshots package repos at this point. That _should_ help with overall battery life on laptops when playing video.

Peter N. M. Hansteen Jul 21, 2024

Libva's VA-API (Video Acceleration API) imported into xenocara https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240721165445 #openbsd #xenocara #libva #vaapi #graphics #xwindows

Libva's VA-API (Video Acceleration API) imported into xenocara

Morgan Aldridge Dec 4, 2023

@[email protected] @smxi @vermaden @xfce Beyond the recent post to ports@ regarding #Wayland by Theo de Raadt that you already linked to, this is a good overview from earlier this year:

https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html

(You may already be aware, but #xenocara is #OpenBSD's fork of #X11 and they try to keep it in sync and upstream as much as possible.)