On 07/02/17 23:07, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> I R A Darth Aggie  writes:
>> Martin Gregorie , in
>
>>>  IIRC Wayland is a new X-server implementation that replaces the
>>>  older X11 Xserver. Xservers can appear to be back to front at first
>>>  glance. They own screen, mouse and keyboard and provide access to
>>>  them as services to their client programs.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
>>
>>  Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to
>>  develop and maintain. GNOME and KDE are expected to be ported
>>  to it.
>>
>>  Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients
>>  as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The
>>  compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux
>>  kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application,
>>  or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional
>>  applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other
>>  display servers.
>>
>> I haven't tried wayland recently, so I can't comment on its current
>> robustness or suitability for anything other than a test bed.  There's
>> something to be said for a simpler implementation of X.
>
> It is not an implementation of X at all.  See:
>   https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
>
Simplified to the point of unrecognisability?

I have to say that X windows was, at its inception (rather like
postcript) the implementation that could in theory do everything.

When all that was needed was the ability to do one thing supremely well.
Completely Define the pixels on a page or a screen.



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