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KWayland Getting Virtual Framebuffer Support

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 1 June 2016 at 11:49 AM EDT. Add A Comment

The latest KWayland feature in the pipe for the next KDE Frameworks 5 update is virtual frame-buffer support for its Wayland server.

This virtual frame-buffer Wayland server is coming to KWayland and inspired by X.Org's Xvfb virtual frame-buffer. The purpose of this new code is for allowing auto tests to run for Wayland-based applications. This small test server is designed to make it very easy for running tests on X11 and Wayland, albeit the environment is very limited.

If you are interested in learning more about this virtual frame-buffer support to benefit KWayland, see this blog post penned this morning by Martin Gräßlin.

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