2014-06-14

What are Wayland graphics? #link

Overview

Case Studies from Collabora does a good job of providing a highlevel technical description of the Wayland graphics engine relative to e.g. existing X11 graphics engines.

Resources

  • Wayland at FreeDesktop.org

    • Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X
    • Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol.
  • See the links for more...