Wayland (protocol)
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wayland-protocol-189-10814698
title:
Wayland (protocol)
text:
Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager. Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg as a free and open-source community-driven project with the aim of replacing the X Window System with
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Display system intended to replace X11
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)
date created:
2009-05-04T07:58:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:39:40Z
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