Wayland 1.16 Released, Likely The Last Time-Based Release, Plus Weston 5.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland 1.16 Released, Likely The Last Time-Based Release, Plus Weston 5.0

Current Wayland/Weston release manager Derek Foreman of Samsung OSG today announced the release of Wayland 1.16 as well as the Weston 5.0 reference compositor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-1.16-Weston-5

[nerdopolis]

Weston 5.0 has the ability to start on logind seats that are not seat0, which if you have 2 cards, and udev set up, you can run two different Weston sessions on the same computer https://streamable.com/kkx1m

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Where is the app <-> server and server <-> remote desktop network transparency we've been promised all these years?

[flower]

Where is the app <-> server and server <-> remote desktop network transparency we've been promised all these years?

who promised network transparency for wayland?
there is now a screen capture extension which will allow for remoting. but i never heard something about network transparency (although it is still possible to do if someone wants to)

[WebMac]

Weston 5.0 has the ability to start on logind seats that are not seat0, which if you have 2 cards, and udev set up, you can run two different Weston sessions on the same computer https://streamable.com/kkx1m

I know this is slightly OT, but is it possible to have real multiseat setups on Gnome and KDE Plasma on Wayland already?

[nerdopolis]

I know this is slightly OT, but is it possible to have real multiseat setups on Gnome and KDE Plasma on Wayland already?

GNOME supports it (not sure how long), and KDE recently gained supports for it

[swoorup]

Tbh, I've found X11 ssh remoting far from optimal than Remote Desktop Protocol. This is the work for GPU to compress those pixels and application's job to send it efficiently through, not a windowing protocol for wayland