Critique or improve my method to get a lightweight LabWC desktop

[robertoj]

If anyone in interested in a lightweight wayland desktop, inspired by openbox, you should try labwc.

 

In orange pi zero 3, we need to stay in bookworm to get video acceleration, so this guide helps build labwc in bookworm

 

As a greeter, I chose pi-greeter, because it is the lightest login manager I could setup, without any X11

 

https://github.com/robertojguerra/opiz3-labwc-setup

 

I am open to read any improvements, or show me how I could make deb packages.

 

In the near future, I will make a step-by-step video tutorial in Youtube.

[robertoj]

Can someone confirm that xwayland is working in the other wayland desktops in armbian?

 

I can't make it work in labwc

[forumtrekker]

With modifications to lightdm.conf I got lightdm working with your tutorial, however lightdm and labwc don't seem to use the SPI display. I verified the setup works on an HDMI screen (with a large box of random color artifacts filling the right quarter side, but that's hopefully just because it was a TV I tested with. I don't really care about HDMI). Do i need to specify lightdm / labwc to use the /sys/class/drm/card0-SPI-1? I'm curious if you simply launched LightDM and had it use the SPI display by default, without changing any configurations (as that is what it sounds like you achieved)

 

I'm realizing I don't know enough about how wayland works to even know how to start debugging the issue or getting it to use the tinydrm device or even the legacy framebuffer device it adds for compatibility. Maybe I need to get Raspbian running and copy their configuration files, since Raspbian Trixie runs on wayland. 

 

The only difference between your guide and my setup is I am running kernel 6.18, as I can't seem to find how to compile or install kernel 6.13. Available installable kernels are 6.12, 6.14, and 6.18 as of 26.0.2 Armbian Trixie.

 

The steps you outline in the github repo work with some modification, namely I will edit to include the lightdm.conf when I get home, since it requires modification from the original installed version. Further, certain packages are uninstallable, or named differently than in your guide. Here is the one line APT command to install all the packages you list, with the package names fixed. Certain packages don't seem to be required at all - namely freerdp, providing the windows equivalent of VNC, so its not included in this list. There are likely others and I assume you collected these packages to install from multiple guides / forums, so the inconsistencies are understandable.

sudo apt install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev libglib2.0-dev libdisplay-info-dev hwdata libgbm-dev libdisplay-info-dev libseat-dev libinput-dev libpango1.0-dev libpangocairo-1.0-0 libcairo2-dev libglib2.0-dev libpixman-1-dev libxkbcommon-dev liblcms2-dev libxcb-xinput-dev libxcb-errors-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-res0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-composite0-dev cmake libxml2-dev libliftoff-dev build-essential cmake libwayland-dev wayland-protocols libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libdrm-dev libgbm-dev libinput-dev libxkbcommon-dev libudev-dev libpixman-1-dev libsystemd-dev libcap-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-xinput-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libwinpr3-dev libpng-dev libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev universal-ctags expat libexpat1 libexpat1-dev seatd foot librsvg2-dev scdoc gettext appmenu-gtk-module-common libaccountsservice-dev gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 liblightdm-gobject-dev liblightdm-gobject-1-0 libgtk-3-dev gnome-common nasm meson

 

I am running Armbian Trixie, and I did not need to install any packages from trixie-backports or oldstable-backports to get your setup to work properly. 

Edited 9 hours ago by forumtrekker