[Mageia-dev] wayland in cauldron (was Re: [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release weston-0.95.0-1.mga3)

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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