KDE Neon - Plasma 5.10 beta Wayland test

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KDE Neon (Ubuntu 16.04)- Plasma 5.10 beta Wayland test

Wayland is a small display server protocol and IPC library which is considered to have the chance to replace X11 as primary windowing system. But Wayland is not a direct successor of X and does not follow the design of X. The display server is directly moved into the Compositor (that is KWin) and clients connect to this server through a Unix socket

Wayland support in the KDE Plasma Workspaces is in a tech-preview state. The workspaces have been developed for X11 and much functionality relies on X11. To be able to make proper use of Wayland these bits have to be rewritten.

The most complex task is to implement Wayland support in KWin, KDE Plasma's Compositor and Window Manager. Since 5.4 KWin is able to manage Wayland clients and this allows to start a Plasma session on Wayland.







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