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| 2020-09-29 |
Bringing Wayland to NetBSD |
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The Wayland display protocol has been gaining popularity with some Linux distributions, though has not made many inroads into the BSD communities. One NetBSD developer, Nia Alarie, has posted an overview of the work that has gone into running a Wayland implementation on NetBSD and explains why X11 will continue to be the default for a while. "In a Wayland system, the 'compositor' (display server) is responsible for managing displays, input, and window management. Generally, this means a lot of OS-specific code is contained there. Wayland does not define protocols for features X11 users expect, like screenshots, screen locking, or window management. Either you implement these inside the compositor (lots of work that has to be redone), or you define your own protocol extension. The Wayland 'reference implementation' is a small set of libraries that can be used to build a compositor or a client application. These libraries currently have hard dependencies on Linux kernel APIs like epoll." The blog post offers further details and a list of work still left to do to bring Wayland to NetBSD. |
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