Wayland/Sway & Slackware

tramtrist · 11-26-2019, 02:54 PM

I've been screwing around with Sway in Slackware and got it running recently in -current with some effort.

There's been a lot of talk about PAM, elogind, the future version of Python etc... I'm wondering if any such discussion is/has happened regarding Wayland? I saw somewhere Plasma5 was running under it and as I mentioned I could get Sway working without a ton of manual effort. What are people's thoughts on this?

hazel · 11-27-2019, 08:30 AM

Have a look at this thread. It's mainly about KDE on Slackware but discusses Wayland too. There's also a separate thread on PAM. I don't think it's helpful to have so many threads that are essentially variants on "Is xyz going to be in the next Slackware?"

tramtrist · 11-27-2019, 10:53 AM

Yeah,
I'm more interested in people have been trying to use Wayland in general for Slackware.

tramtrist · 04-05-2020, 09:29 AM

Not to necro my own thread (which I'm doing) but sway and wayland runs rather well in Slackware.
I've got elogind running as a pre-requisite. Is elogind also a pre-req for plasma in KTown or does consolekit handle it?
Considering if Slack15 launches with Plasma and therefor with elogind would make installing/configuring Sway a little easier.

mumahendras3 · 04-05-2020, 06:40 PM

KTown uses ConsoleKit, not elogind.

saxa · 05-02-2020, 01:47 PM

Wayland is included in slackware-current and is working. In fact i have build up weston and it works out of the box. I just dont rememeber right now if it needs elogind or not, i have it installed as i develop dropline gnome, and some of dorpline gnome also works in a wayland session. I was unable to start it on its own until now, but its not really a big priority. Although in a --nested session it works.