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A protocol to speak with what? Gallium? Or between GTK/QT and the compositor (Weston)?
asdx is correct.
Wayland is the protocol. Just like X has the X11 protocol, for clients to talk with the server. So yes, you could say it is between toolkits (Gtk, Qt, EFL, ...) and a server.
Libwayland (often just "wayland") is a C library, which implements the Wayland (core and few extensions) protocol bindings, and offers a C application programming interface for easy use. You could say that libwayland turns C function calls into bytes that are transferred through a local Unix socket, and it does also the opposite.
Weston is the reference Wayland server (and a compositor and a window manager in the same package). It is the reference compositor, because it is what the Wayland depelopers mainly work on. There are also other Wayland compositors, I think Qt has a handful, for instance.
I dunno, the more I read about what wayland is in this thread, the more I keep thinking "this is just X11 with a different name" lol.. so basically it's a protocol (much like X11) that can manage windows and workspaces (much like X11)..
I was under the impression that Wayland provides a very thin layer for applications to dump their GUI stuff on. I didn't think there would be window management involved or anything like that.
I dunno, the more I read about what wayland is in this thread, the more I keep thinking "this is just X11 with a different name" lol
As far as i understand it it does the same job (period) while removing parts that are not needed in a modern graphics stack and simplifying the codebase. For the end user it will make no difference.
What happen, if I open a application, copy something, then close it.
Will it still be in the buffer ready for me to paste it, or will it be gone?
I tried it. It acts glitchy under some circumstances...
...I but I opened two terminals, copied text off one and closed it and then pasted it in the other one.
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