Wayland the "successor" LCA: The X-men speak [LWN.net]

Wayland the "successor" LCA: The X-men speak

Posted Feb 11, 2013 23:40 UTC (Mon) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: Wayland the "successor" LCA: The X-men speak by pjhacnau
Parent article: LCA: The X-men speak

You should watch the LCA video....

Wayland isn't "just" a compositor, though that is a lot of what is does.
It is also an input demultiplexer, so keystrokes and mouse and touch and whatever can get to the right client.
It might even play a role in the IPC needed for cut/paste etc, I'm not completely clear on that.

But you are right in that wayland is just part of a complete solution. It is just a specification (I think).
You also need an implementation (like westron).
And you need toolkits to render images for the compositor to composite
and you probably need other bits. Maybe even a network transport - you could use X for that or maybe something new and better.

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Wayland the "successor" LCA: The X-men speak

Posted Feb 12, 2013 17:58 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

As the current article says, the new thing in X rendering is better buffer management, because clients already draw everything themselves to buffers that are shared with the X server. Wayland just drops support for drawing methods that modern clients don't use any more.