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# Wayland
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Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to
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its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol. The
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compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel
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modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland
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client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers
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(rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
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The wayland protocol is essentially only about input handling and
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buffer management. The compositor receives input events and forwards
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them to the relevant client. The clients creates buffers and renders
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into them and notifies the compositor when it needs to redraw. The
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protocol also handles drag and drop, selections, window management and
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other interactions that must go through the compositor. However, the
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protocol does not handle rendering, which is one of the features that
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makes wayland so simple. All clients are expected to handle rendering
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themselves, typically through cairo or OpenGL.
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Building the wayland libraries is fairly simple, aside from libffi,
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they don't have many dependencies:
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$ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland
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$ cd wayland
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$ meson build/ --prefix=PREFIX
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$ ninja -C build/ install
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where PREFIX is where you want to install the libraries.
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See https://wayland.freedesktop.org for documentation.
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