[ale] Wayland: WHEN it works, it works BETTER

[mike at trausch.us (Michael Trausch)]

It isn't x. More the method. Applications under x are expected to redraw themselves... Unless they're not. ;)

Wayland always redraws for the app (well, technically, the compositor implementation does). The app just renders under way land, wayland figures out the rest of the details.

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> On Jan 23, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought X is old enough not to have issues like disappearing text or what not. It is writing pixels in buffer in general... 
> 
>> On Friday, January 23, 2015, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/23/2015 12:52 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>> > (Anyone gotten E19 working on Wayland? It looks to me like it's about
>> > the neatest reboot of CDE I've ever seen.)
>> I run MATE desktop..
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYwNjQ
>> MATE Desktop, the well known fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment, is
>> in the process of being ported to Wayland.
>> 
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