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The need for wl_display_update_func_t was removed in

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Author: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Date:   Thu Oct 4 16:54:22 2012 -0400

    Change filedescriptor API to be thread safe

and wl_callback_func_t does not seem to have ever been used in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@gmail.com>
2012-12-12 11:04:53 -05:00
cursor pkgconfig: Use configure provided directories 2012-11-27 20:35:50 -05:00
doc man, configure.ac: Only generate man pages if we can do it offline 2012-12-03 09:49:36 -05:00
m4 Clean up .gitignore files 2010-11-11 20:11:27 -05:00
protocol protocol: Add a wl_surface request for setting buffer transformation 2012-11-27 11:13:38 -05:00
spec doc: move documentation from the tex file to docbook 2012-03-28 23:04:25 -04:00
src client: remove two unused function pointer typedefs 2012-12-12 11:04:53 -05:00
tests tests: rename temporary files 2012-12-03 10:10:22 -05:00
.gitignore man: add man-page infrastructure 2012-09-25 11:02:52 -04:00
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Makefile.am Fix distcheck by adding back protocol/Makefile.am 2012-11-19 17:11:58 -05:00
README README: Update 2012-07-20 12:20:20 -04:00
TODO Update TODO 2012-10-21 20:53:37 -04:00
wayland-scanner.m4.in Split into a core repository that only holds the core Wayland libraries 2011-02-14 22:21:13 -05:00
wayland-scanner.mk Split into a core repository that only holds the core Wayland libraries 2011-02-14 22:21:13 -05:00

What is Wayland

Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to
its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol.  The
compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel
modesetting and evdev input devices, an X applications, or a wayland
client itself.  The clients can be traditional applications, X servers
(rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.

The wayland protocol is essentially only about input handling and
buffer management.  The compositor receives input events and forwards
them to the relevant client.  The clients creates buffers and renders
into them and notifies the compositor when it needs to redraw.  The
protocol also handles drag and drop, selections, window management and
other interactions that must go through the compositor.  However, the
protocol does not handle rendering, which is one of the features that
makes wayland so simple.  All clients are expected to handle rendering
themselves, typically through cairo or OpenGL.

The weston compositor is a reference implementation of a wayland
compositor and the weston repository also includes a few example
clients clients.

Building the wayland libraries is fairly simple, aside from libffi,
they don't have many dependencies:

    $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland
    $ cd wayland
    $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=PREFIX
    $ make
    $ make install

where PREFIX is where you want to install the libraries.  See
http://wayland.freedesktop.org for more complete build instructions
for wayland, weston, xwayland and various toolkits.