“ *Ever wondered why the Linux Desktop shifts to the Wayland protocol? What exactly makes it "better", how do its internals exactly work and how YOU could ut...
Getting to a few fully working Wayland compositors has been a long and painful journey. Once we get there though, I am pretty excited to see the innovation it enables.
The talk mentions that there was effectively only one implementation of X due to the complexity. There are already quite a few independent implementations of Wayland. That still kind of sucks for the moment but at some point it is going to be awesome.
If you want to tweak something that works out of the box, maybe check-out Louvre:
https://github.com/CuarzoSoftware/Louvre
It is C++ which some will love and some will not.
Getting to a few fully working Wayland compositors has been a long and painful journey. Once we get there though, I am pretty excited to see the innovation it enables.
The talk mentions that there was effectively only one implementation of X due to the complexity. There are already quite a few independent implementations of Wayland. That still kind of sucks for the moment but at some point it is going to be awesome.