Orbital: A New Shell For Wayland's Weston

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Orbital: A New Shell For Wayland's Weston

Orbital is a plugin/client for Wayland's Weston compositor that provides a custom shell for the next-generation display server. Orbital is made using Qt 5 and Qt Quick 2...

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

[TheOne]

did I saw the effects lagging or it was flash player lagging the video?

[benalib]

did I saw the effects lagging or it was flash player lagging the video?

no it's not flash

[mrugiero]

I confirm it, too.

[Teho]

The lag is caused by the screencast program:

In this video it is a bit choppy due to the screencaster. In reality it feels much snappier and smoother.

-Source.

[mrugiero]

The lag is caused by the screencast program:



-Source.

Good to know. Michael should have copied that comment into the article.

[TheOne]

Good to know. Michael should have copied that comment into the article.

+1 Agree! Thanks for the details

[CrvenaZvezda]

Damn... Even videos with screencast induced lag shows why we need Wayland! Wayland and proper free AMD drivers and here is NO area where the crap from MS will be able to perform better.

[Ancurio]

What program are you using to screencast wayland/weston?

Weston has a built in wcap utility that records directly to webm video.

[ChrisXY]

So how do you actually build it for wayland?

launching '/usr/bin/orbital-client'
launch
Failed to load platform plugin "wayland". Available platforms are: 
linuxfb
minimal
offscreen
xcb

edit: ok, that message is from qt5. My qtwayland doesn't seem to work.