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Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by kiddico on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:21PM (#15509720)
I believe this is a result of wayland. The window manager now includes what you think of as compositing in the world of X11. The compositor just also happens to do the window placement. I think. I do not yet understand wayland, so if someone knows more I'd love if they shared.

edit: that was sort of correct. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...

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Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by bostik on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:39PM (#15510937)
Few years back when I was working with Wayland on a particular automotive project I came up with an explanation we could use with those outside the project.

Wayland is a protocol, which isn't really instructive. But the reference implementation, libwayland, is easier to comprehend. You can think of libwayland as a library for writing window managers directly on the framebuffer. Sure - that's a lie, but it's a helpful lie.

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