diff --git a/protocol/wayland.xml b/protocol/wayland.xml
index de6756b4..649ef9b8 100644
--- a/protocol/wayland.xml
+++ b/protocol/wayland.xml
@@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@
 
     <event name="enter">
       <description summary="surface enters an output">
-	This is emitted whenever a surface's creation, movement, or resizing
+	This is emitted whenever a surface's mapping, movement, or resizing
 	results in some part of it being within the scanout region of an
 	output.
 
@@ -1745,7 +1745,7 @@
 
     <event name="leave">
       <description summary="surface leaves an output">
-	This is emitted whenever a surface's creation, movement, or resizing
+	This is emitted whenever a surface's unmapping, movement, or resizing
 	results in it no longer having any part of it within the scanout region
 	of an output.