Re: Wayland - Windows for Linux and Unix
- Posted by system_X Jun 08, 2014
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Has anybody looked at Wayland? It is a new kind of Windows server available for Unix and Linux (not for Microsoft windows). It is open source and Ubuntu seems to have adopted it (from what I have read) or are in the process of adopting it.
Discussed Wayland at the recent Linux NW Con. Most distributions have been adopting it one way or another lately. MIR is the display server Ubuntu is working on. In my predicted opinion Wayland will become the defacto standard and smash on X in performace. Legacy applications will be compatible with with Wayland thru XWayland as well.
Home page: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
Client API Documentation: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/chap-Library.html
Raspberry Pi location of the client library: /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libwayland-client.so.0
Just like xcb, the libwayland-client is Lower level than most will want to deal with for general GUI application development and libs like EuGTK are going to be a good way to go for most. My interest was in developing a GUI library with XCB, but from how things are going, I think my interest is leaning more towards Wayland.
