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Wayland

Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol.

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  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Linux  Comes bundled with newer versions of distributions.
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What is Wayland?

Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X11 icon X11, easier to develop and maintain. Desktop environments that support Wayland include GNOME icon GNOME and KDE Plasma icon KDE Plasma.

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.

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Wayland was added to AlternativeTo by Antonio David Gellida Lavara on and this page was last updated .