Wayland Wayland is a replacement for the X11 window system protocol and architecture with the aim to be easier to develop, extend, and maintain. Wayland is the language (protocol) that applications can …

Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting …

Wayland Architecture A good way to understand the wayland architecture and how it is different from X is to follow an event from the input device to the point where the change it affects appears on screen. …

Oct 22, 2012 · wayland-1.0.4.tar.xz weston-1.0.4.tar.xz December 14th, 2012 The 1.0.3 versions of Wayland and Weston were released. The 1.0.3 releases are maintenance releases and mainly …

Wayland doesn't have to compete with other projects for drivers and driver developers, it lives within the X.org, mesa and drm community and benefits from all the hardware enablement and driver …

Introduction Motivation Most Linux and Unix-based systems rely on the X Window System (or simply X) as the low-level protocol for building bitmap graphics interfaces. On these systems, the X stack has …

The Wayland protocol lets the compositor send the input events directly to the clients and lets the client send the damage event directly to the compositor: Wayland architecture diagram The kernel gets an …

Wayland Protocol and Model of Operation Basic Principles The Wayland protocol is an asynchronous object oriented protocol. All requests are method invocations on some object. The requests include …

wl_fixes - wayland protocol fixes This global fixes problems with other core-protocol interfaces that cannot be fixed in these interfaces themselves.

Therefore, Wayland compositors should use Xwayland, the X11 server that lives in the Xorg server source code repository and shares most of the implementation with the Xorg server. Xwayland is a …