Ubuntu Delays Wayland System Compositor

The current Ubuntu System Compositor is not yet stable nor recommended unless you plan to actually work on the code...

Among the remaining work items that were planned for this system compositor initiative but have yet to be tackled include work in the area of VT switching, using the greeter as the lock screen, an X Server signal hook to fake VT switches for input drivers, patching XWayland to use regular input DDX drivers, talking with QA about testing, and writing a Wayland-Plymouth back-end for the start-up/shut-down splash screen. The current Weston within the PPA is also based upon v0.89 -- far from the current upstream Wayland/Weston v0.95.

The plans at this point for the system compositor aren’t to run software natively atop Wayland but rather to use XWayland to have an X.Org Server atop the compositor until all major software is Wayland-compatible. Let's see if this Ubuntu System Compositor will become a reality for Ubuntu 13.04 in April of 2013. Upstream Wayland/Weston meanwhile should be hitting version 1.0 later in the calendar year.

If you are wanting to try upstream Wayland/Weston, there is a preview Wayland/Weston/XWayland Linux distribution to try. Update: Here's a preview of this new Wayland/Weston implementation, including screenshots.