wiki/notebook/linux.wayland.org
Gabriel Arazas b088086b06 Merge evergreen notes into the notebook
Now, it's all under the notebook umbrella. Seems to be appropriate as it
is just my notes after all.

I also updated some notes from there. I didn't keep track of what it is
this time. Something about more learning notes extracted from my
"Learning how to learn" course notes and then some. Lack of time and
hurriness just makes it difficult to track but it should be under
version control already.
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Wayland

The next iteration to X, the traditional Unix display server. Wayland, similar to X, is an entirely new protocol leaving to other tools to implement desktop systems. Thus, it needs a new ecosystem of programs to run inside of a Wayland-based desktop sessions.

Ecosystem

  • A Wayland core library.
  • Sway is a compositor and a window manager serving as a drop-in replacement for i3.
  • wlroots is an unopinionated modular compositor library.
  • Wayland book is a free book showing the basic ropes of working with Wayland-based systems.
  • XWayland is an implementation of X display server to accept Wayland input.
  • xdg-desktop-portal-wlr is a portal backend for wlroots.
  • GNOME Shell and KDE Plasma is slowly supporting Wayland.

Application support

While Wayland support for various legacy systems are increasing recently, one still have to be cautious with support.