Initial XWayland Support Looks To Land In X.Org Server 1.16

[smitty3268]

Although the GLAMOR approach seems easier, it's a pity that we'll lose all the awesome SNA work done in the intel driver, which in all benchmarks was miles ahead of everything else (including GLAMOR, although those were older versions).

Hopefully when we're all running Wayland we won't have to use too many apps that are still running on X at all. If it's just for backwards compatibility, I don't think the performance matters much.

[Luke_Wolf]

Hopefully when we're all running Wayland we won't have to use too many apps that are still running on X at all. If it's just for backwards compatibility, I don't think the performance matters much.

Yeah, it's up to valve to decide what happens with games, but Wayland has enough backing by the people who actually matter (KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, Red Hat, SUSE, Intel, etc...) that all of the non-Game applications that matter will for sure run directly on wayland (other than possibly skype and that's more on Microsoft releasing a Qt5 version).

[blackout23]

Yeah, it's up to valve to decide what happens with games, but Wayland has enough backing by the people who actually matter (KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, Red Hat, SUSE, Intel, etc...) that all of the non-Game applications that matter will for sure run directly on wayland (other than possibly skype and that's more on Microsoft releasing a Qt5 version).

Most games use SDL 2 and that already has wayland support. Older games will fallback to xwayland. Game developers don't care about the display server.