LWN.net Logo

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 16, 2012 17:32 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server by dps
Parent article: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

I'm not seeing where in the architecture Wayland supports cut and paste between local applications (or, in general, any sort of interaction between clients). So remote applications won't be second-class citizens in that sense, because it isn't supported at all. I suspect that there will be some mechanism outside of Wayland for it, and it will hopefully be something ssh/sshd will quickly learn to proxy. And, for that matter, it would be great if that covered other inter-client communication that X doesn't presently carry, like opening URLs in your web browser and libnotify.


(Log in to post comments)

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 16, 2012 20:10 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link]

I hope there will be a datagram based protocol, something that can be wrapped in a UDP-based OpenVPN or IPsec tunnel instead of SSH, for better latency. Putty in an RDP session is as much pain as xterm over VNC.

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 17, 2012 7:22 UTC (Fri) by JohnLenz (subscriber, #42089) [Link]

Actually, that isn't correct. The protocol includes direct support for copy/paste and drag/drop. See this old thread for the rationale to add it directly to the protocol. You can notice the copy/paste stuff in the current protocol description.

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds