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Summary

Wayback is a X11 compatibility layer which allows for running full X11
desktop environments using Wayland components. It is essentially
a stub compositor which provides just enough Wayland capabilities to host
a rootful Xwayland server.

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tested in poudriere and runtime on intel igpu

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jsm requested review of this revision.Dec 28 2025, 9:36 PM
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arrowd added inline comments.
x11/wayback/Makefile
15

The order is BUILD, LIB, RUN DEPENDS.

24

No need for both GL_ACCOUNT and GL_PROJECT, they match the default.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to add alpha quality software to the tree though...

Reference:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback

x11/wayback/Makefile
21

...and move USE_GITLAB and GL_SITE to a seprate section

x11/wayback/Makefile
8

LICENSE_FILE is missing