Wayland's Weston Gets A FreeRDP-Based Compositor

[giselher]

Question(s)!

This is a Weston back-end. So this has to be implemented for every compositor over and over again?

It's a back-end. So, it's not clear to me if this allows me to take control of a session that is already running on a local display through another back-end. I checked the makefile, and it says the following:

$(x11_backend) \
$(drm_backend) \
$(wayland_backend) \
$(headless_backend) \
$(fbdev_backend)

How does that make any sense? Is Weston capable of running on DRM or X11 directly??

Furthermore, it was mentioned (link!) that the main developer was working on this. Is this for Wayland itself??

If you write a new wayland compositor from scratch, then yes you have to reimplement it again. But I will not make any assumption about the future development of wayland compositors and how they share their code. That said I like to see something like a base compositor or library. Weston has a plugin interface and the developers are testing some stuff about the plugin interface, but I don't really know how far they have come.

Weston is able to run as x11 client with the x11_backend (like XNest or Xephyr) and it is also able to run on a tty with the drm or fbdev backend. The headless backend is just for testing and debugging the wayland code independent of the backend (the functions are just stubs). They wayland backend lets you run a wayland compositor as wayland client/window (also like XNest).

[Rexilion]

Question(s)!

This is a Weston back-end. So this has to be implemented for every compositor over and over again?

It's a back-end. So, it's not clear to me if this allows me to take control of a session that is already running on a local display through another back-end. I checked the makefile, and it says the following:

$(x11_backend) \
$(drm_backend) \
$(wayland_backend) \
$(headless_backend) \
$(fbdev_backend)

How does that make any sense? Is Weston capable of running on DRM or X11 directly??

Furthermore, it was mentioned (link!) that the main developer was working on this. Is this for Wayland itself??

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland's Weston Gets A FreeRDP-Based Compositor

There's now a Wayland compositor that's based upon FreeRDP, the open-source implementation of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMxNjE