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Originally posted by increasechief View PostWill I notice when the future has arrived?
A compositor in this context is "a software process which composites off-screen buffers for each open window to create a screen image". These images are generated many times a second then sent to the GPU for output to the connected physical monitors.
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To get an idea of what Wayland is supposed to achieve, this quote might prove enlightening:
Kristian Høgsberg, a Linux graphics and X.Org developer who previously worked on AIGLX and DRI2, started Wayland as a spare-time project in 2008 while working for Red Hat.[129][130][131][132] His stated goal was a system in which "every frame is perfect, by which I mean that applications will be able to control the rendering enough that we'll never see tearing, lag, redrawing or flicker." Høgsberg was driving through the town of Wayland, Massachusetts when the underlying concepts "crystallized", hence the name.Last edited by ermo; 17 October 2020, 03:55 PM.
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Originally posted by increasechief View PostCan someone tl;dr Wayland for me?
Edit: many of the new features are already available on Win10, MacOS and Android, with X11 having no hope to catch up. So Wayland brings the stack back on par with them - and is arguably even superior in certain areas.Last edited by treba; 17 October 2020, 04:13 PM.
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Originally posted by mmmbop View PostAnyone else running into this on Wayland?
Bug 420160 - Session crashes when monitor goes into standby
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Originally posted by mmmbop View PostAnyone else running into this on Wayland?
Bug 420160 - Session crashes when monitor goes into standby
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
Probably very few people. Wayland+Kwin is not usable long enough for the monitor to go into standby
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Among the reader's comments, I had expected that some had also used Gnome, instead of KDE. Both desktop environments are trying to work with Wayland. Which is better? Which will succeed first?
Is it a matter of leap frog; where each is able to be better, at different times & circumstances?
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