Wayland Can Now Handle Virtual Workspaces

[garegin]

"It won't be long now until Wayland has a tenth of X's features. "
haters gonna hate. even if Høgsberg is convicted of killing his wife, wayland is gonna gonna die. never!

[thofke]

"It won't be long now until Wayland has a tenth of X's features. "
haters gonna hate. even if Høgsberg is convicted of killing his wife, wayland is gonna gonna die. never!

I understood it as a positive remark. How long is X11 under development? With this rate of progress it will easily surpass X in a short time. Google 'sailing ship effect' and you see what I mean.

[TAXI]

Wayland is the protocol.

A protocol to speak with what? Gallium? Or between GTK/QT and the compositor (Weston)?

Weston is a WM/compositor/display server that uses the Wayland protocol, isn't it?

I don't really know, hence why I asked. So don't ask the clueless, better explain it to him...

Sorry if I sound noobish, but in that topic I am.

[pq__]

A protocol to speak with what? Gallium? Or between GTK/QT and the compositor (Weston)?

asdx is correct.

Wayland is the protocol. Just like X has the X11 protocol, for clients to talk with the server. So yes, you could say it is between toolkits (Gtk, Qt, EFL, ...) and a server.

Libwayland (often just "wayland") is a C library, which implements the Wayland (core and few extensions) protocol bindings, and offers a C application programming interface for easy use. You could say that libwayland turns C function calls into bytes that are transferred through a local Unix socket, and it does also the opposite.

Weston is the reference Wayland server (and a compositor and a window manager in the same package). It is the reference compositor, because it is what the Wayland depelopers mainly work on. There are also other Wayland compositors, I think Qt has a handful, for instance.

[9a3eedi]

I dunno, the more I read about what wayland is in this thread, the more I keep thinking "this is just X11 with a different name" lol.. so basically it's a protocol (much like X11) that can manage windows and workspaces (much like X11)..

I was under the impression that Wayland provides a very thin layer for applications to dump their GUI stuff on. I didn't think there would be window management involved or anything like that.

Please forgive me if I sound noobish here.

[89c51]

I dunno, the more I read about what wayland is in this thread, the more I keep thinking "this is just X11 with a different name" lol

As far as i understand it it does the same job (period) while removing parts that are not needed in a modern graphics stack and simplifying the codebase. For the end user it will make no difference.

[nerdopolis]

Does clipboard work in Wayland?

What happen, if I open a application, copy something, then close it.
Will it still be in the buffer ready for me to paste it, or will it be gone?

I tried it. It acts glitchy under some circumstances...
...I but I opened two terminals, copied text off one and closed it and then pasted it in the other one.