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0 pointsacomjean5y ago0 comments

Thanks!

So basically Wayland replaces the X protocol. (I had to run some things with ssh -X, and windowing on remote machines came back to me..)

And Xserver is replaced by another Compositor which is not specified, but poking around Weston seems like the reference one (towns in metro west Boston?)

No tearing would be nice (I watch someone weekly on a Manjaro install, tearing linux screen share, it can be unpleasant).

I'm assuming a lot this gets abstracted away by QT/KDE , Gnome/GTK so developers can just Develop. (probably at the expense of alternative desktops..)

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fhars5y ago

Yes, that is basically correct, except that ssh -X working is one of the bugs in X11 that Wayland fixes.

young_unixer5y ago

All of that's correct, as far as I know.

Just note that a Wayland compositor must implement some core Wayland protocols and it can also implement its own protocol extensions (for example, it can implement a screen-sharing extension, and efforts are being made to 'standardize' these extensions).

nerdponx5y ago

Apparently the creator of Wayland was driving through Wayland, MA when he had the idea for the project: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-14320...

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