[Mageia-dev] wayland in cauldron (was Re: [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release weston-0.95.0-1.mga3)
Colin Guthrie
mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Wed Jul 25 12:46:12 CEST 2012
'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 25/07/12 00:00 did gyre and gimble:
> blino <buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org> writes:
>
>> Name : weston Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> Version : 0.95.0 Vendor: Mageia.Org
>> Release : 1.mga3 Build Date: Tue Jul 24 23:38:30 2012
>> URL : http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
>> Summary : The Weston Wayland Compositor
>
> FYI, this release allows to test weston (the reference wayland
> compositor) oustide of X11 by running "weston-launch".
> This will spawn the compositor in a new tty.
>
> Beware that this one is still experimental, and might crash your X11
> session.
>
> You can also try it inside of a X11 session, which seems to be safer, by
> running "weston".
>
> For now, the package is not much useful, only a sample "weston-terminal"
> application is provided, but I plan to enable more demo wayland clients
> in our weston package.
>
> I am also looking at enabling the wayland backend in gtk+3, which would
> enable far more applications to run in wayland (provided that they don't
> use gdk-x11).
Nice thanks :)
Col
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