Wayland 1.0 available, but there is still some way to go

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for months been talking about this alternative to traditional X11 windowing system, and although its advantages are remarkable both for users and for developers, there are still many points to be resolved. And that has just announced the availability of Wayland 1.0 (and its window manager, Weston).

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is because as indicated on Phoronix, the creator of Wayland Wayland explained that Kristian Høgsberg 1.0 “ simply defines the point at which developers can Wayland sure no backward compatibility with the Wayland-based protocol and its API “.

So we have a version particularly relevant Developer , but not as crucial for end users: it will take even see Wayland in action in any standard distribution, and in fact the list points to be solved is important, as revealed in the original article.

Phoronix

believe that although there may be attempts to integrate Wayland in Ubuntu 13.04, and that support this integration will not be realized until Ubuntu 13.10 , which only appear within a year. Other distributions like Fedora will also demonstrate the experimental possibilities of this system of windows, but again we are left with this message: way to go.

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October 23, 2012 | admin | Tags: , , , , | Comments Closed

Wayland and Weston reach Ubuntu 12.10

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Although the role of Wayland / Weston is not even relevant to the practical level, the developers of this project are moving forward in the evolution of this promising successor to The X Window System, and although it was far difficult to prove that progress , a user has tried to simplify the problem.

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Phoronix

reveal an enthusiastic user nicknamed “Darxus” Wayland has created a Launchpad PPA Wayland that allow any user can test Ubuntu Wayland in Ubuntu 12.10 with some simplicity . Yet it is likely that you can not do much with this windows server, and the developer encourages users to discuss the conflicts that appear in this error report.

See more about this in the mailing list wayland-devel, and although we still have a long way to see a stable and usable version of Wayland in Ubuntu, the other way to test this is windows server this LiveCD .

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X in Wayland: it promises

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Wayland has long windows giving good news, and although not yet ready for deployment on production machines if they are taking important steps in the short term we can talk about real substitute much more powerful to the traditional windows server on Linux systems.

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this blog have shown that progress, and in particular one very interesting: the compositing window manager Weston, an integral part of Wayland, native X11 application can run in Wayland , which is important because that provides the necessary support to run the “old” applications in this new server.

the original post explaining how to work Wayland, Weston, and in particular xwayland module that creates a socket X is added to the loop that is managing Weston and simply wait for X clients to connect to it. When someone makes a request, Weston start your own server and X windows are redirected to a pixmap that is stored in a buffer through the video driver xwayland.

You have the explanation in detail in this article, but suffice to say that the operation is apparently perfect, and this gives rise to Wayland is backward compatible with traditional X applications (ie, all current). You can see in the video (sorry for resolution) this system in place. Very, very promising.

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Wayland, beyond X

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quite impressive technical background who have made at The H Open & they review the past, present and future of Wayland, a development which they say promises to be a revolution -lot more critical than GNOME 3, KDE 4, GNOME Shell or Unity-on our desktop.

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The article reviews the main components of Wayland, making special mention of Weston -server composition, will also be the display server, and making clear that the benefits are dramatic for Wayland users and developers.

least because Wayland provide developers working with the GUI, saving calls between layers that were part of the legendary The X Window System and its derivative projects.

users the benefits will be felt in the response times of all applications and things like “perfect frame” as they call it in The H Open. Direct rendering will among other things that when we reproduce a video or play a game effects never see tearing, lag or flicker .

I leave you with an item for the curious at the technical level and that makes it clear that Wayland is one of the great promises for the future in the Linux and Open Source.

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0.85 Wayland, Wayland the first real version

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Høgsberg announced the availability of Wayland Weston 0.85 and 0.85 , which is an important step in development that aims to remove the veteran market X.org.

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As indicated in

Phoronix, this is the first public version of Wayland, but is actually one of the many editions of this pre-1.0 server. However, it is an important element of the project as allows other developers prepare their applications for Wayland .

indicates the developer on the official announcement:

This is the first version of Wayland and Weston. Wayland is the protocol and mechanism IPC (Inter-process Communication), while Wheston is the reference implementation of the composite manager. The 0.85 branch is stable in both repositories in both the protocol and interface. We will have a series of changes to the protocol prior to version 1.0, but this branch marks a first milestone stable before making the leap to version 1.0.

is expected to appear here from Wayland 0.90 , which is considered the Release Candidate. As Høgsberg himself says, the future expected 1.0 Wayland 2012 “not conquer the world” but will be an important step after which many versions that surely will be enlarging the popularity and presence of this project.

You can download

Wheston 0.85 and 0.85 Wayland from the official website of Wayland in Freedesktop.org.

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0.85 Wayland, Wayland the first real version

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Høgsberg announced the availability of Wayland Weston 0.85 and 0.85 , which is an important step in development that aims to remove the veteran market X.org.

500x324 wayland 0 85 0.85 Wayland, Wayland the first real version of

As indicated in

Phoronix, this is the first public version of Wayland, but is actually one of the many editions of this pre-1.0 server. However, it is an important element of the project as allows other developers prepare their applications for Wayland .

indicates the developer on the official announcement:

This is the first version of Wayland and Weston. Wayland is the protocol and mechanism IPC (Inter-process Communication), while Wheston is the reference implementation of the composite manager. The 0.85 branch is stable in both repositories in both the protocol and interface. We will have a series of changes to the protocol prior to version 1.0, but this branch marks a first milestone stable before making the leap to version 1.0.

is expected to appear here from Wayland 0.90 , which is considered the Release Candidate. As Høgsberg himself says, the future expected 1.0 Wayland 2012 “not conquer the world” but will be an important step after which many versions that surely will be enlarging the popularity and presence of this project.

You can download

Wheston 0.85 and 0.85 Wayland from the official website of Wayland in Freedesktop.org.

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Wayland in Ubuntu 11.10, now little more than a toy

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Canonical announced long ago that in the future Wayland used as windows server instead of X11. That decision became very fashionable a project that was then in its infancy and although it has taken some important steps still far from having a real practical application .

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Phoronix

shown in, where they have made a complete article in evaluating the performance of Wayland Ubuntu 11.10 thanks to the availability of the Wayland packages for this distribution that are actually available from May.

new packages have been ever since-even though development is still active, but at least it lets you check some demos how the implementation of various possible applications in future Linux distributions.

original article you can find details about the demos found in the package wayland-demos, as revealed by Phoronix, all running “within a server X. Org “. That article also makes clear that today there is “nothing particularly exciting or only ” in the demos of Wayland, but it is clear that development is ongoing.

However, we will have something visible even in quite some time, “ for end users, there will be no meaningful integration of Wayland in Ubuntu before version 12.10 will come in over a year “But what is more likely to Wayland not arrive definitively to Ubuntu or Ubuntu 13.04 13.10 . There is a long way to go.

We leave you with two videos published after those tests Phoronix:

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KDE will be available in Wayland in 2012

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Martin, one of the developers of KDE, has offered a lecture at the Desktop Summit being held these days in Berlin, and she explained the problems affecting the compositing window manager KWin Wayland and the future has in development.

Desktop summit will be available in KDE Wayland in 2012

Grässlin

KWin is responsible, so he knows very well what I speak, and his opinion users can start using early versions of KDE on Wayland in 2012 .

Phoronix

shown in at the launch of this developer explained the current limitations of the current system, X11, among other things provides direct communication between applications, no support for redirection, and WIN was not oriented X11 environments compositing window .

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However the solution for most of these limitations , and it seems that this will be the future for KDE and other windowing environments. As you know, in Canonical announced months ago that are also working to use Ubuntu for Unity in Wayland, although it is unclear when that jump.

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KDE also goes by Wayland

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June 17, 2011 – by MetalByte

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Some time ago we talked about not Wayland , this lightweight server is windows give the coup de grace to the venerable X Window traditional and put into the mouth around the world to Mark Shuttleworth early November, with the announcement that the future of Ubuntu going in that direction (at least on paper).

KDE Wayland Wayland also goes by

news Wayland, a development that has been active since 2008 , were several from other distributions who climbed on the bandwagon, like Fedora, the NVIDIA statements in which there were samples be very interested in this project, he has no plans to support it.

Anyway, it seems that Wayland is a way that developers are interested enough in Linux and KDE have with its implementation in KWin in the face to make the most possible, as workspaces.git can see, but for now we talk about first steps any more.

Clearly

interests and possibilities Wayland has , something you can appreciate knowing the evolution of graphics management systems GNU / Linux. If it is enough to forget about X, we shall see in a few years, not before.

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An amazing evolution: from X to Wayland

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March 23, 2011 – by techy

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Fantastic

have given the review at Ars Technica to history and evolution of the X Window System , a window system that was developed in the early 80′s and very quickly became the standard for all UNIX systems of the era, revolutionizing the market with legendary concept.

A remarkable evolution: From X to Wayland

This concept

legendary, as told in the original article was that it was a GUI designed for network environments : you could display windows of any team in any other, and that brutal power was also joined to the abstraction of “look and feel” of the system’s own server. The X protocol defined things like keyboard and mouse type devices and screens early, but left by the appearance of window managers or desktop environments.

Thereafter

the evolution of The X Window System is accelerating and it was crucially contributed operating system GNU / Linux, he used this system and was also responsible for the same evolution, among other things there were problems between the X and OpenGL , but in 2007 solved the issue with calls Translation Table Maps (TTM) and finally there was an API to handle the tasks of 3D graphics applications .

However, the API

TTM was huge in size, which had caused confusion and difficulties in its implementation. alternatives emerged as GEM (Graphics Execution Manager) in 2008, but at the time would come the real alternative: Wayland .

Kristian

Hogsberg creating a software engineer from Boston, started as a solution to the problem, and the idea was to develop a completely new display manager 3D output sent directly to the kernel, bypassing the X . In fact, one of the customers of the new window manager would be the very X. What he called Wayland why? Because Hogsberg drove through this small town in Massachusetts, United States, when he had the happy idea.

Ars Technica

describes some of the advantages of Wayland, a server which we have already spoken in the past and for many is the great hope in this field. You have many more details in the original article at Ars Technica, and of course what is clear is that none of this would have been possible without the legendary The X Window System .

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