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Bookmark or Share- Wayland FAQ - freedesktop.orgThe Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. You can think of Wayland as a toolkit for creating clients and compositors. It is not a specific single compositor or window manager.
- WaylandWayland is the language (protocol) that applications can use to talk to a display server in order to make themselves visible and get input from the user (a person). A Wayland server is called a "compositor". Applications are Wayland clients. Wayland also refers to a system architecture.
- Chapter 1. Introduction - freedesktop.orgOverall, the philosophy of Wayland is to provide clients with a way to manage windows and how their contents is displayed. Rendering is left to clients, and system wide memory management interfaces are used to pass buffer handles between clients and the compositing manager.
- Wayland - freedesktop.orgThe official 1.11 release for Wayland and Weston. Next release cycle is proposed for middle of August with a release at the end September. wayland-1.11.0.tar.xz - Wayland 1.11.0 Release Announcement. weston-1.11.0.tar.xz - Weston 1.11.0 Release Announcement.
- Chapter 3. Wayland Architecture - freedesktop.orgA good way to understand the Wayland architecture and how it is different from X is to follow an event from the input device to the point where the change it affects appears on screen. This is where we are now with X: Figure 3.1. X architecture diagram. The kernel gets an event from an input device and sends it to X through the evdev input driver.
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