Wayland News Archives


915 Wayland open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2008.

Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols
Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He's been working through a few proposals like addressing NACK usage for how Wayland protocols can be rejected and in ending out the week he has drafted some additional workflow improvements.

28 September 2024 - Wayland Governance - 23 Comments
Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration
Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration

Miracle-WM 0.3.5 was released this weekend as the newest step forward for this Mir-based window manager / Wayland compositor developed by a Canonical engineer. Miracle-WM continues being polished ahead of the upcoming Fedora Miracle Spin debuting as part of Fedora 41.

9 September 2024 - Miracle-WM 0.3.5 - 1 Comment
Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols
Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols

Jonas Ã…dahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository.

31 August 2024 - Wayland-Protocols 1.37 - 84 Comments
Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin
Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin

Miracle-WM as a reminder is a Wayland tiling window manager that is built atop Canonical's Mir. Miracle-WM also happens to be developed by a Canonical engineer, Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM is inspired by i3 and Sway but the main difference is turning to Mir to do the heavy lifting. Miracle-WM 0.3.1 was released on Monday as the project prepares for its Fedora Miracle Spin debut coming up.

13 August 2024 - Miracle-WM 0.3.1 - 16 Comments
Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols
Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols

Nearly three years in the making, the ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 protocols have been merged into the Wayland Protocols repository for vastly improving screen capture support on the Wayland desktop.

11 August 2024 - ext-image-capture-source-v1 - 70 Comments
XWayland 24.1.1 Brings Many Fixes
XWayland 24.1.1 Brings Many Fixes

Building off last month's release of XWayland 24.1 that brought explicit sync support, improved rootful, and other changes, the first point release has now been issued.

11 July 2024 - XWayland 24.1.1 - 8 Comments
Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Announced back in February was Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built atop Mir and developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek. Today he announced version 0.2 as the latest feature update to this Wayland compositor with tiling window management.

19 April 2024 - Miracle-WM 0.2 - 3 Comments
XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin
XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin

Since last year Red Hat engineers have been developing xwayland-run and wlheadless-run for spawning X11 clients within its own dedicated XWayland rootful instance and for running a Wayland client on a set of supported Wayland headless compositors, respectively. The intent is on improving the Wayland headless experience as well as being able to get classic X11 sessions up and running via rootful XWayland. Out today is the XWayland-Run v0.0.3 release.

25 March 2024 - xwayland-run - 10 Comments
XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend
XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend

XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess.

18 March 2024 - GBM Only - 101 Comments
WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode

WayVNC 0.8 was released this weekend as the VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC attaches to wlroots-using compositors and creators virtual input devices and exposes the display via the RFB protocol for the lack of Wayland having any standardized VNC-type support for remote/network computing.

26 February 2024 - WayVNC - 5 Comments
The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming
The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming

While there are a lot of Wayland compositors out there that aren't too different from each other in terms of features, one of the more unique ones is Greenfield. The Greenfield Wayland compositor has been out there for a few years now as an in-browser HTML5-based solution that is continuing to prove itself capable and even fast enough for handling Linux gaming.

6 February 2024 - Greenfield Compositor - 22 Comments
XDG Top-Level Drag Protocol Approved For Wayland
XDG Top-Level Drag Protocol Approved For Wayland

Merged today to Wayland-Protocols is xdg-toplevel-drag, the protocol that's been under discussion for the past nine months for handling applications that request a window is moved at the same time as a drag operation.

30 January 2024 - xdg-toplevel-drag - 82 Comments

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