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It's time to resolve the confusion.
Protocols: X11, Wayland.
Display servers: X.Org, the many Wayland compositors.
Compositors: KWin, Mutter, GNOME Shell (sadly they run the compositor and shell in the same thread!), Sway, Way Cooler, Mir, Weston, waybox, Phosh.
Libraries to implement compositors: libweston, WLC, wlroots, MirAL.
Examples:
- X.Org implements X11.
- Compositors like KWin use X11 to run on X.Org.
- Compositors like KWin implement Wayland.
- Compositors like Sway and waybox use wlroots, which implements Wayland.
Mir had its own protocol (or API I think), but they dropped it when they began to seek implementing Wayland.
They say "Wayland compatibility", but after all, Wayland compositors too are "Wayland compatible".
There is no "Wayland" standard display server. Wayland is implemented by compositors, which are display servers at the same time.
P. S. This is the time where Phoronix forums should merge the Wayland and Mir sections since it only causes more confusion...
Originally posted by Vistaus View PostArcan...Last edited by tildearrow; 21 September 2018, 03:53 PM.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostWait... Does Arcan use its own protocol/API??
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Originally posted by Royi View PostWhat should be Wayland advantage over the current solution that everybody is looking for Wayland support?
Wayland, on the other hand, is designed from the ground up to support modern display systems in the way they are actually used. The X11 developers and the developers using X11, such as desktop environment developers, got together and figured out exactly what they really needed, and how to put it together in a sustainable way. That is Wayland.
Originally posted by Royi View PostDoes Wayland, in practice, deliver what it should?
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TheBlackCat , So, in light of waht you write we should see 2 things in systems which utilize Wayland:
1. Better performance.
2. Less resources used.
Looking on some tests done on Phoronix it doesn't seem Wayland does offer those improvements.
Why is that?
Is it just because Wayland isn't ready yet or maybe the promise was big but in practice it doesn't really matter?
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