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Wayland 1.2.0 Released With Weston

Posted by timothy on from the somewhere-there's-a-kid-named-wayland-weston dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wayland 1.2 & Weston 1.2 have been released. Features of this quarterly update to the X.Org/Mir display competitor is support for color management, a new input method framework, a Raspberry Pi renderer/back-end, HiDPI output scaling, multi-seat improvements, and various other changes for this next-generation Linux desktop display protocol and compositor."

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  1. Re:any decent tiling WMs? by raxx7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes and no.

    Weston is only a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor.
    Wayland developers don't expect it actually to be used by normal users.

    Instead, they expect others to implement their own Wayland compositors, as it should not be any harder than writing a similar X Window Manager.
    That is what the Gnome, KDE and Enlightmenment people plan to do, convert their current X compositors (gnome shell, kwin, e) into Wayland compositors.

    So, eventually, you might get a dwm Wayland equivalent. But it doesn't exist yet.