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Enlightenment E19 To Have Full Wayland Support

Posted by Unknown on from the brushed-metal dept.

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.

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  1. DRM drivers? by Megane · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh great, another acronym overload. The first thing I thought of was Digital Restrictions Management drivers, which was plausible because stuff that plays the crap that comes from Hollywood usually wants to be paranoid about DRM. Do we really have to overload this acronym with something related to screen display?

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  2. Re:LOL, e19 might take until 2019 to be written :) by raster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    enjoy your lols. e17 -> e18 took 12 months. it's been about 4 months since e18.

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  3. Re:Enlightenment is a toy system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The X11 remote support is used by a relatively small amount of people. Getting a fast and smooth local desktop is much more important.

  4. Is it time to hand in my geek card? by Opportunist · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have no, zero, nada idea what's being discussed here. Am I the only un-enlightened person on /. and it has been the latest craze and buzz and just I'm so far out of the loop that I have never ever heard of it?

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  5. Re:Offtopic: Are there any decent docs for the API by Viol8 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh right. So if I wanted a decent reference guide for the unix system APIs you'd tell me to go and read the linux source code instead of getting hold of a copy of Stevens?

    @rsehole.

  6. Re:Offtopic: Are there any decent docs for the API by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    reference code != reference documentation