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wayland

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However, it's different from UT, by the fact that it's not using Mir, but Wayland directly through Kwin.

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wayland gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, named after Dr. Francis Wayland.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wayland.

noun

A surname.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, named after Dr. Francis Wayland.

noun

A city and separate township in Allegan County, Michigan.

Example sentences

1

However, it's different from UT, by the fact that it's not using Mir, but Wayland directly through Kwin.

2

It recently got Wayland support, which is the next generation display protocol of the Linux desktop.

3

This in that Wayland pretty much a lib/protocol for talking to the graphics hardware.

4

This was solved by removing the broken and mostly unused Wayland support from Dolphin.

5

But frankly this is cosmetic comparing to the systemd and wayland/mir topic.

6

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Wayland fix these kinds of security issues in X?

7

So the next question is, anyone running Firefox on Wayland yet?

8

I hope that Wayland (or whatever comes after X) would work in some similar fashion.

9

Thing is that Wayland seems more comparable to svgalib than X.

10

Right now you can use Wayland as a driver for Xorg.

11

Welcome to why Wayland is the future and X is deprecated.

12

Doesn't wayland come with a better security model than X?

Proper noun examples

1

Also did some stuff with XCB, Wayland, SDL and even the Linux kernel before, although mainly for fun.

2

Gtk does sound like a better choice than raw X11, particularly as Wayland, Mir, and friends continue to grow.

3

I think you will find that the brightness stuff is aimed at Wayland, not X11.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use wayland in a sentence?

However, it's different from UT, by the fact that it's not using Mir, but Wayland directly through Kwin.

What does wayland mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is wayland?

wayland is commonly used as noun.