Hacker News with Generative AI: Wayland

Wayland Color Management and HDR Protocol Support Merged (phoronix.com)
After five years in the making and over 800 review comments, Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol is merged to the upstream Wayland Protocols repository.

Wayland, Color Management, HDR, Open Source, Protocol

10 points by marcodiego 26 days ago | 0 comments

Reassessing Wayland (dudemanguy.github.io)
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles.

Wayland, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

110 points by GalaxySnail 26 days ago | 59 comments

Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
Yesterday, I read this blog post: Wayland Cursor Lag: Just give me a break already..., where a Linux user discusses their frustration with input latency under Wayland. They detailed their own subjective experience of the problem, but failed to produce hard evidence.

Linux, Wayland, X11, Input Latency, Performance

610 points by todsacerdoti 44 days ago | 488 comments

Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox (labwc.github.io)
Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

Wayland, Window Managers, Open Source, Linux, Graphics

72 points by NeutralForest 65 days ago | 16 comments

An X11 apologist tries Wayland (artemis.sh)
I think it’s only fair to call me an X apologist. I get incredibly frustrated when people talk about dropping support for X11. I fight back against the notion that some day X11 will be dead and unmaintained, a curiosity of a time before. I’ve spoken to people in my circles at-length about the accessibility tools that Wayland simply hasn’t been capable of supporting that X11 has.

X11, Wayland, Linux, Open Source, Accessibility

14 points by fanf2 70 days ago | 0 comments

Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging (phoronix.com)
In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion.

Linux, Open Source, Graphics, Color Management, Wayland

64 points by voxadam 100 days ago | 30 comments

Miracle tiling Wayland window manager (miracle-wm.org)
Miracle is a tiling Wayland window manager built on top of Mir.

Window Managers, Wayland, Linux, Open Source, Software

8 points by gtirloni 132 days ago | 0 comments

Raspberry Pi OS's yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now official (arstechnica.com)
Pi owners should hardly notice any changes, though performance will improve.

Raspberry Pi, Operating Systems, Wayland, Linux

15 points by Brajeshwar 133 days ago | 4 comments

Sway 1.10 Released with GPU Reset Recovery and Other Wayland Enhancements (phoronix.com)
Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop.

Linux, Software, Wayland, Open Source, Desktop Environments

11 points by laktak 134 days ago | 0 comments

Wayland: I3 to Sway Migration – Anarcat (anarc.at)
I originally held back from migrating to Wayland: it seemed like a complicated endeavor hardly worth the cost. It also didn't seem actually ready.

Wayland, Window Managers, Linux, Open Source

28 points by ossusermivami 137 days ago | 15 comments

Nvidia Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors (phoronix.com)
At the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API.

Nvidia, Wayland, Vulkan, Graphics, Linux

4 points by undercut 151 days ago | 0 comments

Cursor Size Problems in Wayland (blogs.kde.org)
I've been fixing cursor problems on and off in the last few months. Here's a recap of what I've done, explanation of some cursor size problems you might encounter, and how new developments like Wayland cursor shape protocol and SVG cursors might improve the situation.

Wayland, Linux, User Interface, Cursor, Graphics

5 points by LorenDB 153 days ago | 1 comments

Valve announces Frog Protocols to bypass slow Wayland development (freedesktop.org)
This MR adds support for the 'frog-fifo-v1' protocol from frog-protocols, a new repo of Wayland protocols that we intend to be more iterative and experimental than upstream.

Linux, Open Source, Software, Operating Systems, Wayland

38 points by DonnieBurger 168 days ago | 5 comments

IntelliJ IDEs supports Wayland now (jetbrains.com)

IDE, Wayland, Software, Programming

81 points by nitinreddy88 201 days ago | 23 comments

Making a Wayland Screen Capturing Protocol (yngvason.is)

Wayland, Screen Recording, Linux

18 points by any1 212 days ago | 1 comments

XWayland Ruined and Saved Wayland Development [video] (youtube.com)

Wayland, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Video

7 points by Rinzler89 219 days ago | 0 comments

wlmaker – A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker (github.com/phkaeser)