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The purpose of this interface is to fix wl_registry.bind races. It is possible that a wl_output.bind request for a wl_output can arrive after the compositor has already removed and destroyed the global. For example, it seems to happen after sleep. The wl_output_list provides a safer way to watch output announcements and removals. The wl_output globals are added and removed as before. But in addition to that, the compositor will announce the wl_output_list global. The wl_output_list global is not expected to be removed. When the client binds the wl_output_list global, the compositor will send all available outputs to it. When an output is removed, the compositor will send the wl_output.removed event and the client is expected to react to it by calling the wl_output.release request. The interface effectively starts at version 5. Signed-off-by: Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii@kde.org> |
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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.