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Kyle Brenneman 4673ef7e9c connection: Add a thread ID to WAYLAND_DEBUG output.
If WAYLAND_DEBUG contains the token "thread_id", and gettid() is
available, then include the current thread ID in the output from
wl_closure_print.

If multiple threads are sending requests, then those requests can get
interleaved. That's usually fine, but for wl_surface requests and
commits, that can cause problems ranging from incorrect behavior to
protocol errors.

Being able to see which requests are sent by different threads would
make such problems much easier to diagnose.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Brenneman <kbrenneman@nvidia.com>
2025-09-15 14:45:53 +01:00
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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. 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.

The wayland protocol is essentially only about input handling and buffer management. The compositor receives input events and forwards them to the relevant client. The clients creates buffers and renders into them and notifies the compositor when it needs to redraw. The protocol also handles drag and drop, selections, window management and other interactions that must go through the compositor. However, the protocol does not handle rendering, which is one of the features that makes wayland so simple. All clients are expected to handle rendering themselves, typically through cairo or OpenGL.

Building the wayland libraries is fairly simple, aside from libffi, they don't have many dependencies:

$ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland
$ cd wayland
$ meson build/ --prefix=PREFIX
$ ninja -C build/ install

where PREFIX is where you want to install the libraries.

See https://wayland.freedesktop.org for documentation.