Wayland breakage

Posted Dec 28, 2016 12:59 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Wayland breakage by ovitters
Parent article: GNOME, Wayland, and environment variables

> 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.

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