Hi, On 27 February 2012 20:06, David Jackson <djackson...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM, David Jackson <djackson...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> So, I will be able to display wayland session, or did you mean individual >> wayland apps, onto an X server, over an X protocol connection, to a standard >> X server? If it is an entire wayland session tht can be displayed over X >> protocol to a standard X server, that would be sufficient, as long as the >> wayland session can be displayed only to the X server and does not have to >> be displayed to real hardware at the same time. > > > As an example, if I wanted to display an wayland session to an Xvnc server > for instance, or an Xfree86 server running on another computer. its > possible, right? > > Thanks for your help.
Yes, that's completely correct. You can also have an X session hosted inside your Wayland session hosted inside your X session which accepts remote connections, or any combination you can come up with. Another thing I should add to the list is that the graphics rendering is completely unchanged from X11. The DRI (mid-late 1990s) and DRI2 (mid-late 2000s) extensions are the model for Wayland's rendering; if you have an X app today, it will make GL calls which will go through the kernel (which performs basic security/sanity checks) and be processed directly by the graphics card. Once rendering is completed, the client simply asks the X server to display the completed buffer, without ever having performed any actual rendering through GLX. In fact, the server doesn't know the difference between a buffer which the client has rendered to with hardware-accelerated GL, or which the client has rendered to in software. So, in that sense, it's exactly the same as X11 has been since about 1997. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
