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Wayland
Wayland is a modern display protocol and architecture that replaces the aging X11 system on Linux. It defines how applications communicate with the display server to render graphics and handle input.
🧩 Core Concepts of Wayland:
Protocol, not a server: Wayland is a specification — it defines how clients (apps) and the compositor (display server) talk to each other.
Compositor = Display Server + Window Manager: In Wayland, the compositor handles both rendering and window management. Examples include:
- Mutter (GNOME)
- KWin (KDE Plasma)
- Hyprland, Sway, river, etc.
Direct rendering: Applications render their own graphics and hand them off to the compositor, reducing complexity and improving performance.