[Flightgear-devel] The state of Wayland and Flightgear

[Jack J. <jfo...@ya...>]

Flightgear does not support Wayland yet. It would be neat, as less cruft 
in the render system (no networking is included with Wayland, whereas it 
is with X) means higher FPS, as does more graphics memory available 
(shut down X first you know!)

It DOES run under Wayland, with the Xwayland extension. It is so slow I 
did not bother taking off, averaging at less than 1 fps.

 From wayland.freedesktop.org:

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.

Part of the Wayland project is also the Weston reference implementation 
of a Wayland compositor. Weston can run as an X client or under Linux 
KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a 
minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile 
use cases.


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