Raspberry Pi OS has a new Wayland compositor called Labwc. It replaces Wayfire, which was used when the Raspberry Pi switched ...

but have to be implemented separately by e.g. the Wayland compositor. One advantage of Labwc is that it is more lightweight than Wayfire and Raspberry Pi has judged that this means that it should ...

It now uses the Wayland compositor Labwc for rendering the desktop across all models, instead of the Wayfire compositor already used on the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, and the legacy X11 system used on ...

The latest version brings a big change that causal users might not even notice: it uses the labwc Wayland compositor by default on all Raspberry Pi models rather than the wayfire compositor or X W ...

Probably most important is that henceforth (at least on 64-bit boards) its desktop will use the Wayland compositor rather than X11 to draw and manipulate windows. This is a development that has ...

but Wayland isolates them at compositor level, they cannot observe each other. This is why the switch to Wayland with the "wayfire" compositor was one of the major innovations last year ...

Wayland is not, strictly speaking, a display server like X. Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk through. To make things more confusing the compositor can be a Wayland client itself.

Wayland has its own compositing manager, which is in direct contrast to the X architecture, because X relies on an outside compositor to handle memory buffer changes. Wayland also leverages DRI2.

Despite the noble goal and initial wave of excitement, only one Linux distribution has switched to a Wayland compositor as its default: Fedora. The Fedora Linux distribution is supported by Red ...