Wayland's Weston 12 Alpha Brings Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland's Weston 12 Alpha Brings Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control

Released today was the first alpha release of the upcoming Weston 12.0 release, which continues to serve as the reference compositor for Wayland...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Weston-12.0-Alpha

[Sethox]

Nice, a moment ago (from writing my comment) part 3 for Wayland Wine just pulled a merge request.

[RejectModernity]

Nice, a moment ago (from writing my comment) part 3 for Wayland Wine just pulled a merge request.

Wonder how many parts there gonna be, can't wait to enjoy wayland-native experience in Steam Proton games.

[Sethox]

Wonder how many parts there gonna be, can't wait to enjoy wayland-native experience in Steam Proton games.

It feels like there are plenty more, which is good. It means the Wine developers will look at the merge requests (too big and it will stay on the list for years).

We use the aforementioned mechanisms to queue win32u display device updates to the desktop window thread. Since there are many pieces that need to fall into place, this MR gradually reaches the final design

[danboid]

Does anyone know of a distro that uses Weston by default or any products that use it?

ie does anyone actually use Weston? What advantages does it have, if any, over Mutter, Kwin or sway etc.

[Barley9432]

Does anyone know of a distro that uses Weston by default or any products that use it?

ie does anyone actually use Weston? What advantages does it have, if any, over Mutter, Kwin or sway etc.

Weston is not meant to be used by end users, instead it is meant to be used by developers of others like Kwin developers as an example to use it as a reference implementation

[oiaohm]

Does anyone know of a distro that uses Weston by default or any products that use it?

ie does anyone actually use Weston? What advantages does it have, if any, over Mutter, Kwin or sway etc.

Weston is not meant to be used by end users, instead it is meant to be used by developers of others like Kwin developers as an example to use it as a reference implementation

Barley you are not right. Weston is commonly used by lots of end users just not desktop end users. The end user using Weston most likely don't even know that what they are using is Weston or Linux.

https://www.covesa.global/members

https://github.com/COVESA/wayland-ivi-extension

Weston does have a plugin system that car makers and others use to customize the weston interface. Allows then to share a lot of common code.

Car entertainment systems you don't want millions of features and you want well audited code. Mutter/kwin too feature rich. sway/wlroots not audited enough. Weston end up just right for Car entertainment systems. Not the only field like this.

These usages means that Weston development is in fact very well funded and why you see 5 days a week merges. Yes people working on Weston its their 9-5 day job not a spare time thing.

Weston is the reference implementation and a production used implementation at this stage less complex use cases.

Yes there is a option for some of the old X11 windows managers to go the Weston plugin route just none have yet.

There are many millions of Weston users who are using it daily who have absolutely no clue they are a Weston user.

[pracedru]

So much good news. Looking forward to trying that pipewire backend.

[DanaG]

Any time I've tried Weston, it's left me wondering: Is it really supposed to be a usable desktop, or is it intended entirely as just a minimal reference implementation?
How are you supposed to add launcher icons? And how do you log out without having to `killall weston`?

[oiaohm]

Any time I've tried Weston, it's left me wondering: Is it really supposed to be a usable desktop, or is it intended entirely as just a minimal reference implementation?
How are you supposed to add launcher icons? And how do you log out without having to `killall weston`?

https://github.com/varmd/wayward

If you attempt to use xorg-server without a windows manager its not a useable desktop either. Weston does support Shells.

Weston is not just a minimal reference implementation but that is the mode people have the habit of running it in and not noticing that you can plug in different shells.

Not many parties at this stage have used the shell functionality of Weston.