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Wayland Prototype for Rendering Software that Runs Remotely

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https://www.linux.com – 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 system. Read more at The H (Software)

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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.

Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.0.3.Wayland 1.0.3 is a maintenance release and only some test suite rewrite and fixes make up the bulk of

Hi, I would like to test wayland/weston demos on Precise (just for fun).

I have the weston 0.95 and all it's dependencies installed from xorg-edgers ppa.

Looking on the web, it mentions the wayland-demos package and the wstart command but neither seems to be available.

If I run either weston or weston-start (even with sudo) from terminal, I get

Code: fatal: environment variable XDG_RUNTIM

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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.

Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.0.3.

Wayland 1.1 is a major release in the series and integrates a great deal of changes and improvement

The latest back-end to be published for Wayland's Weston compositor is for Red Hat's SPICE...

The latest back-end to be published for Wayland's Weston compositor is for Red Hat's SPICE... Read more at Phoronix

Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.0.

Highlights of Wayland 1.0:

• Changes to make the API thread safe have been implemented.

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.

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.