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Enlightenment Starts Taking Shape On Wayland

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 18 March 2013 at 02:32 PM EDT. 5 Comments

Enlightenment is starting to take shape on Wayland with its own compositor.

Chris Michael of Enlightenment has spending time recently writing an Enlightenment compositor for Wayland (just not Weston or simply supporting EFL applications) that provides an Enlightenment desktop shell.

This early work-in-progress code for supporting the Enlightenment desktop/window manager on Wayland is happening within this Git branch.

Embedded below is this new Enlightenment Wayland desktop shell work.

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