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.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Support for Multiple Monitors
Tags
- emulation-window-system
- os-gui
- windows-system
- display-server
- user-interfaces
- windows-systems
- windows-managers
- os-user-interfaces
- window-system
- User interface
- window-systems
- os-user-interface
Wayland News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about SparkyLinux
COSMIC desktop now available for testing on SparkyLinuxThe COSMIC desktop environment is now available for installation and testing on SparkyLinux through...
- Fla published news article about Kubuntu
Kubuntu 25.10 shifts to Wayland by default, drops X11 in new installsKubuntu 25.10 will no longer include X11 as the default session for new installations, switching to...
- Fla published news article about openSUSE
openSUSE announces availability of Wayland compatibility for LXQt within TumbleweedThe latest release of openSUSE Tumbleweed now includes Wayland support for users looking to install...
Recent activities
- Alaik added Wayland as alternative to Phoenix X server
- braky updated Wayland
- coth rated Wayland
- RemovedUser added Wayland as alternative to wayland-rs
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What is Wayland?
Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for
X11, easier to develop and maintain. Desktop environments that support Wayland include GNOME and
KDE Plasma.
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.




