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Wayland display server support


 

Wayland is a new display server that is being promoted by Ubuntu and RedHat. It is a complete replacement for X, but will apparently provide backwards compatibility by starting a one-off X instance if an application needs X.

I don't have any bias towards Wayland since I run Slackware, which uses Xorg.

Elwood,have you any thoughts on Wayland and its effect on XEphem? I imagine you would not be looking forward to dealing with it.


ecdowney2002
 

Good ol' linux, always a moving target. If this breaks X11 clients I very much doubt I will have the motivation to chase it.

--- In xephem@..., "njpcoleman" <jemmyducks@...> wrote:

Wayland is a new display server that is being promoted by Ubuntu and RedHat. It is a complete replacement for X, but will apparently provide backwards compatibility by starting a one-off X instance if an application needs X.

I don't have any bias towards Wayland since I run Slackware, which uses Xorg.

Elwood,have you any thoughts on Wayland and its effect on XEphem? I imagine you would not be looking forward to dealing with it.


Akkana Peck
 

ecdowney2002 writes:
Good ol' linux, always a moving target. If this breaks X11 clients I very much doubt I will have the motivation to chase it.
The rumor is that the X11 protocol will be implemented on top of
Wayland, so Xlib and associated libraries won't need any changes at all.
So I've been told by several Ubuntu people, none of them actually
Wayland or Xlib developers. I haven't seen it written anywhere.
Sounds nice, if it's true!

...Akkana