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I believe this is a result of wayland. The window manager now includes what you think of as compositing in the world of X11. The compositor just also happens to
by kiddico 9y ago
I believe this is a result of wayland. The window manager now includes what you think of as compositing in the world of X11. The compositor just also happens to do the window placement. I think. I do not yet understand wayland, so if someone knows more I'd love if they shared.
edit: that was sort of correct. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)#Wayland_compositors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...
- bostik 9y agoFew years back when I was working with Wayland on a particular automotive project I came up with an explanation we could use with those outside the project. Wayland is a protocol, which isn't really instructive. But the reference implementation, libwayland, is easier to comprehend. You can think of libwayland as a library for writing window managers directly on the framebuffer. Sure - that's a lie, but it's a helpful lie.