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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. Looks good! by CajunArson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wayland & Weston are coming along pretty well and we are seeing increased adoption in both GTK+/QT toolkits and in desktops with upcoming versions of KDE.

    One area where the developers need to go out and evangelize is on the front of EGL for proprietary drivers. Yes it's great that Intel's open source drivers (and to a lesser extend the open-source AMD & Nvidia drivers) have EGL support, but both AMD & Nvidia need to be convinced that EGL is important to their upcoming proprietary drivers too.

    The irony here is that Mir, which is is seen as a huge competitor to Wayland, could end up helping Wayland enourmously since Canonical doesn't seem to be afraid to pick up a phone and call people at AMD/Nvidia to talk about updating the drivers.

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  2. third post! by fredan · · Score: 4, Funny

    since I'm using X11 ;-(

  3. 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.

  4. Remoteability question restated by LaughingRadish · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's a very simple question with hopefully no wiggle room: Suppose I have two Linux boxes, each running Wayland. They do not run X11 in any form or fashion. I am on the console of one of them and in Wayland. Can I start a terminal emulator, ssh over to the other box, issue a command that starts some graphical program (which uses only Wayland coding, no X11), and expect that program's window to show up on the first box? Assume that ssh has already been modified to allow for this sort of thing. If this cannot be done, what prevents it from being done? I have yet received no complete answer for this.