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Luna 🏳️‍⚧️

@nixCraft Wayland is not a windowing system but a compositor afaik

22 Dec 2023 at 14:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.cologne
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Calisti 🏳️‍🌈🦇

@luna @nixCraft Wayland says about itself "Wayland is a replacement for the X11 window system protocol", and wikipedia says it's a display server protocol.
The terms seem slightly blurry.

22 Dec 2023 at 14:54 | Open on chaos.social
Luna 🏳️‍⚧️

@calisti @nixCraft Ah i see the server is called the compositor but Wayland is just a protocol

22 Dec 2023 at 14:55 | Open on social.cologne
Gabriel Adrian Samfira

@luna @nixCraft

X11 is more of a display server. Wayland is more like a display server protocol. In the context of wayland, the compositors that implement the wayland protocol are indeed "display servers".

Luckily we don't really need to care about any of that. Well, not unless we want to work on one. 😅

22 Dec 2023 at 16:06 | Open on mastodon.samfira.com
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