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Enlightenment E19 To Have Full Wayland Support
An anonymous reader writes "Full Wayland support has been added to Enlightenment 0.19. Building upon earlier Wayland support, Enlightenment can now act as its own Wayland compositor by communicating directly with the kernel's DRM drivers instead of having to rely upon Weston. The Wayland support is still considered experimental but it's now the first Linux desktop with full Wayland support."
Quick README on building and using it.
"Direct Rendering Manager" has existed for something like a decade already.
If I'm not mistaken the Direct Rendering Manager is 8 years older: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wik... - you have to blame Hollywood for that :)
Hawaii was the first, I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
There is also a Wayland distro called Rebecca Black OS. Although when I tested it last time, it was super glitchy and crashed all the time. It has been recently updated so it might be worth another shot.
Anyway, great to see the Wayland stuff rolling in.
It allows more direct access to application framebuffers, prevents tearing and, allows booting to a graphics mode early on and from there a smooth transition to desktop. As a downside, it does not allow applications to be displayed on a remote desktop and for example VNC has to be used instead.
Yes, the example is called Weston.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland
"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Bastiat
Most people only ever use X11 as a client and server on the same machine. You're living inside a bubble to think otherwise.