Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

The H has posted a lengthy introduction to the Wayland display server project. "Wayland is only as useful as the applications and toolkits it supports. Applications built for Xfce, GNOME and LXDE use the GTK+ toolkit. Porting the toolkit to Wayland makes the use of Wayland transparent to the application. From an application's point of view, it is still using the common UI elements, buttons, scrollbars, text areas, sliders and checkboxes, that it has always used; but further down the graphics stack, in the backend, these are now translated so they are rendered with an appropriate graphics library into Wayland buffers."

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