In a blog post, the lead developer of the Compiz window manager has declared he does not want to port the project to Wayland. Currently, Canonical's Unity desktop uses Compiz as its compositing engine...
Sam Spilsbury, lead developer of the Compiz window manager, has written a blog post declaring that he does not see much of a future in porting the project to the Wayland architecture.
The maintainer of KDE Plasma Compositor and Window Manager, Martin Gräßlin, has said that the future of KDE is with Wayland. There’s a big debate right now is about who is fit to replace the aging X Display Server, and it seems that Wayland is beginning to become the obvious choice, despite Canonical’s Mir announcement (their own display server).
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Wayland 1.0 along with the reference Weston 1.0 reference compositor were officially released on Monday.
Kristian Høgsberg after developing the project the past four years officially announced version 1.0 for Wayland.
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Less than one day after the official release of Wayland 1.0 there is a new Wayland compositor that emerges. This new compositor for Wayland is dubbed "Green Island" and leverages Qt, QtQuick, and QML for creating a new and unique Linux desktop experience.
When reading through the Wayland 1.0 documentation, I came across three different types of compositors (in chapter 5):
System compositor
Session compositor
Embedding compositor
From what I understand, the system compositor would be something like Plymouth/GDM/KDM, a session compositor would be a window manager/desktop environment, and embedding compositors would be used in a sandbox (like Flas
Less than one day after the official release of Wayland 1.0 there is a new Wayland compositor that emerges. This new compositor for Wayland is dubbed "Green Island" and leverages Qt, QtQuick, and QML for creating a new and unique Linux desktop experience...
Less than one day after the official release of Wayland 1.0 there is a new Wayland compositor that emerges.
For those interested in Wayland, Qt, and 3D, there's an interesting new Wayland compositor out in the wild. This compositor renders a 3D maze using Qt and brings in some Wolfenstein 3D elements while allowing Wayland surfaces to be rendered on the walls...
For those interested in Wayland, Qt, and 3D, there's an interesting new Wayland compositor out in the wild.
Even since Canonical decided that they are planning to ditch X.org and are planning to switch over to Wayland, I have been quite excited about the possibilities of Wayland. Today, we have more Wayland related good news – MeeGo might switch over to Wayland before the year ends.What Wayland?Wayland is a display server protocol for Linux.
Wayland project founder and chief developer Kristian Høgsberg has presented the prototype of a Weston extension that allows the Wayland compositor to display software that is running on another system...
Wayland project founder and chief developer Kristian Høgsberg has presented the prototype of a Weston extension that allows the Wayland compositor to display software that is running on another
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