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Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 20, 2012 12:41 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Wayland - Beyond X (The H) by raven667
Parent article: Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Exactly. You will be able to run X11 on top of Wayland, the same way you can get it on OS X or even Windows.

The X11 protocol will still be used, but basically for where it really makes sense: applications running remotely on another host. Local applications will work better (less round trips, less display artifacts, less processes and contexts switches involved) on Wayland.


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