Wayland breakage

Posted Dec 23, 2016 10:58 UTC (Fri) by ovitters (guest, #27950)
In reply to: Wayland breakage by gutschke
Parent article: GNOME, Wayland, and environment variables

The window manager concept is just one solution to this. There's already a tiling compositor for Wayland: http://swaywm.org/. Further, the functionality of Weston is being put into a library. Not exactly sure what this allows, but I assume that most of the compositor logic is in this libweston, thereby reducing the complexity creating a different Wayland compositor.

Technically not really a window manager, but practically it could be.

Wayland breakage

Posted Dec 28, 2016 12:59 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

> Not exactly sure what this allows, but I assume that most of the compositor logic is in this libweston, thereby reducing the complexity creating a different Wayland compositor.

Correct. The idea is to let people write window managers and desktop environments without having to worry about the details of DRM/KMS/GBM, EGL, dmabuf, the Wayland protocol itself, and whatever other plumbing. It's not there yet, but hopefully in the next year or so it'll become a really solid viable alternative.