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 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. …

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 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 …

Wayland is a new display server and compositing protocol, and Weston is the implementation of this protocol which builds on top of all the components above. We are trying to distill out the functionality …

Oct 22, 2012 · The 1.0.4 versions of Wayland and Weston were released. The 1.0.4 releases are maintenance releases and most importantly fix a CPU eating bug in the weston plane code.

The Wayland protocol is an asynchronous object oriented protocol. All requests are method invocations on some object. The requests include an object ID that uniquely identifies an object on the server. …

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 …

wl_display - core global object The core global object. This is a special singleton object. It is used for internal Wayland protocol features.

The open-source reference implementation of Wayland protocol is split in two C libraries, libwayland-client and libwayland-server. Their main responsibility is to handle the Inter-process communication …