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Can someone sum for me what Wayland is, I don't generally hang out under rocks, but I feel like I do right now...

• krig 15y ago
  From what I understand it's a replacement for X, or rather for the X display protocol. It's rewritten from scratch to take advantage of modern hardware with GPU acceleration. Official website: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
• ElliotH 15y ago
  From what I understand it's a replacement for X.Org also providing compositing and such things. It tries to provide a clean codebase without being quite a monolithic as X.Org is right now. It's currently quite immature, you can only really use demo apps on it, and while gtk and such have been ported I know of no real window managers that support it.
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• stephen_g 15y ago
  It's a new display server protocol that uses EGL and a whole lot of the modern parts of the Linux graphics system, while throwing away most of the old parts nobody uses. The reference compositor Weston can be used either as a replacement for Xorg, or run in Xorg. In it, you can even run a rootless Xorg server so you can run native Wayland apps alongside X apps (a bit like Mac OS X does).
• appleflaxen 15y ago
  This was in the article, and summarizes it reasonably well. "Wayland is a new window system architecture aiming to be a good fit for everything from embedded and mobile devices to full-blown desktop environments. Wayland builds on most of the graphics driver, desktop and UI infrastructure we have today, but distils out just the display server functionality we actually use today. The toolkits, device drivers, compositors and desktop environments we use today all play their parts, but the X server is essentially reduced to an awkward, 500kloc IPC mechanism."