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LCA: The ways of Wayland

LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Feb 13, 2013 21:26 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: LCA: The ways of Wayland by arekm
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

Yep. And also video acceleration, 3D, OpenGL and so on.

Basically, X server just gets a "front buffer" that is an OpenGL texture. It then can use whatever it wants to draw on it and Wayland just pushes it to the actual screen.


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