Welcome to wayland documentation!

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • The compositing manager as the display server
• Types of Compositors
  • System Compositor
  • Session Compositor
  • Embedding Compositor
• Wayland Architecture
  • X vs. Wayland Architecture
  • Wayland Rendering
  • Hardware Enabling for Wayland
• Wayland Protocol and Model of Operation
  • Basic Principles
  • Code Generation
  • Wire Format
  • Interfaces
  • Versioning
  • Connect Time
  • Security and Authentication
  • Creating Objects
  • Compositor
  • Surfaces
  • Input
  • Output
  • Data sharing between clients
    • Data negotiation
    • Data devices
• X11 Application Support introduction
  • Introduction
  • Two Modes for Foreign Windows
  • Architecture
  • X Window Manager (XWM)
    • Window identification
• Wayland protocol specification
  • wl_display
  • wl_registry
  • wl_callback
  • wl_compositor
  • wl_shm_pool
  • wl_shm
  • wl_buffer
  • wl_data_offer
  • wl_data_source
  • wl_data_device
  • wl_data_device_manager
  • wl_shell
  • wl_shell_surface
  • wl_surface
  • wl_seat
  • wl_pointer
  • wl_keyboard
  • wl_touch
  • wl_output
  • wl_region
  • wl_subcompositor
  • wl_subsurface
• Client API
  • Client Introduction
• Server API
  • Server Introduction

Acknowledgments

TODO: Kristian has to fill up this with one or two paragraphs and a small “thank you”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preface

Preface

This document describes the (i) Wayland architecture, (ii) Wayland model of operation and (iii) its library API. Also, the Wayland protocol specification is shown in the Appendix. This document is aimed primarily at Wayland developers and those looking to program with it; it does not cover application development.

There have been many contributors to this document and since this is only the first edition many errors are expected to be found. We appreciate corrections.

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