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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.
enjoy your lols. e17 -> e18 took 12 months. it's been about 4 months since e18.
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The X11 remote support is used by a relatively small amount of people. Getting a fast and smooth local desktop is much more important.
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
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No it will not take a decade to see E19 final. Once the project started back up again, they went from E16 to E17 in one year. E18 was quickly on it's heels and now a functional beta of E19 is already out. I am on their mailing list and follow the project closely. They are developing at warp speed. To all the people who install a recent version of E, play with it for a few hours, declare it crap and purge it from their systems: you have no idea what you are missing. If Enlightenment has a problem, it is that to use it to it's full potential - which is vast - one must endure one of the, if not the, steepest learning curves of any DE out there. Once mastered, there is no GUI\DE more powerful and flexible. I am currently running Bodhi 4.2 with E 17.4 and out 16 years of using Linux and every other DE\WM that has come along over that duration, this is the greatest setup I have ever had. I have one display setup with four workspaces, each setup in it's own tiling configuration and my other display setup in a more traditional, but heavily customized way. The window tiling abilities in E are no joke and one of the primary reasons I use it. Being able to use it both ways, one on each monitor is more than I could ever ask for. Now, if all E could do right after an install was limited to what you are presented with, then yes, it would be silly. But it is up to the user, perhaps with a little Googling, forum searching, and getting the mailing list to make it do whatever your hearts content. Because of this, Enlightenment is not for everyone: power users only need apply. I keep going, but i will stop here before I get too carried away. My only gripe is the current lack of documentation for Elementary, which makes writing software for it difficult since you can only learning by studying source code, but standard tutorials are on the way.
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What I'm not getting - what does Enlightenment offer that the others don't do better?
Cool window decorations!
There are some nice and clean themes for KDE/GNOME, but the theming system in both seems a bit lacking in flexibility. All the themes look kind of the same but with different colors.
Back in 1999 Linux desktops were horrible mismashes of different widgets and applications that didn't fit together, but the window title bars had beautiful pixel art vines running on them and stuff like that. That was fun, I miss those parts.
I'm still running Enlightenment DR .9 compiled on Irix 6.3. Can somebody on this forum help me with fixing dependency problems using XMKMF that prevent me from going to Irix 6.5?
Also, Windowmaker docklets are not always updating when rendered. Is this a libpng problem or Enlightenment? I emailed Mandrake, but no response.
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