Wayland

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.

Part of the Wayland project is also the Weston reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. Weston can run as an X client or under Linux KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases.

Information:

• Wayland architecture
• Wayland FAQ
• Documentation (PDF)
• Toolkits with Wayland support
• Screenshots

Software:

• Releases
• Wayland repositories (gitlab.freedesktop.org is the upstream)
• Old Wayland git repositories (mirrors and those that are not in Gitlab)
• Building Weston
• X clients on Wayland
• Extras: some apps and debugging tools

Development:

• Mailing list
• IRC: #wayland on freenode
• Patchwork: pending Wayland and Weston patches
• Reviewing Patches (please help)
• Testing Wayland
• Contribution instructions
• Wayland bugs
• Weston bugs