Weston 12.0: Highlights and changes for Wayland's reference compositor (Collabora blog)

[Posted May 25, 2023 by jake]

Over on the Collabora blog, Marius Vlad looks at the Weston 12.0 release. Weston is the reference compositor for the Wayland project. The highlights include two new backends and support for multiple scanout devices, along with "multiple fixes and internal changes that would further facilitate integration of functionality like color management or the ability to load up multiple backends at the same time".

As we're heading towards having the ability to load multiple backends, two new ones have seen the day in this new release: backend-vnc, which is similar to backend-rdp, is based on aml and neatvnc libraries. It has TLS support and user authentication. The other backend added is the PipeWire one; it creates a node for each output and like the plugin with the same backend name, it can be used to capture Weston outputs for processing with other applications.

Weston 12.0: Highlights and changes for Wayland's reference compositor (Collabora blog)

Posted Jun 1, 2023 20:14 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

"Multiple scanout devices" is an odd phrasing… had to read the text closely to figure out it meant having one display server spread over multiple graphics cards' outputs. To be fair, I think X11 uses similarly impenetrable language for that use case.

Weston 12.0: Highlights and changes for Wayland's reference compositor (Collabora blog)

Posted Jun 3, 2023 12:36 UTC (Sat) by ddevault (subscriber, #99589) [Link]

Note that Weston has not been the reference Wayland compositor for several years, it is simply *a* Wayland compositor now.