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Learning More About XWayland

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 6 April 2014 at 10:00 AM EDT. 2 Comments

Initial XWayland support was merged for X.Org Server 1.16 this week.

While we've written dozens of articles about XWayland on Phoronix, those wanting to learn more about XWayland more concisely can checkout a new blog post written by Jasper St. Pierre.

Jasper's blog post covers various elements of XWayland and is a nice read for anyone interested in X11 application/game compatibility atop Wayland.

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