Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

  • uis@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 months ago

    Wayland offloads a ton of stuff that was core to X11 (like input device handling) directly to the compositor.

    Not exactly. Imagine if xorg was also desktop environment with own compositor and effects. That’s what wayland compositor is.