ZcaT@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoLinux Mint bringing Wayland sessions to Cinnamonblog.linuxmint.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1376arrow-down14cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
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minus-square2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months agoAnyone know where the sources for this are? I can’t find many references to Wayland in the main Cinnamon repo, at least using GitHub’s search. I wanted to check if they use wlroots for this or are writing yet another compositor from scratch.
minus-squared_k_bo@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·11 months agoCinnamon uses Muffin, which is a fork of GNOME’s Mutter: https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin
minus-squaresir_reginald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months ago yet another compositor from scratch it’s a good thing to have multiple implementations of compositors. that avoids bad practices or making compositor specific programs that wouldn’t work with other compositors.
minus-squared_k_bo@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoThere is also Weston which is the reference implementaion of a Wayland compositor.
Anyone know where the sources for this are? I can’t find many references to Wayland in the main Cinnamon repo, at least using GitHub’s search.
I wanted to check if they use wlroots for this or are writing yet another compositor from scratch.
Cinnamon uses Muffin, which is a fork of GNOME’s Mutter: https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin
it’s a good thing to have multiple implementations of compositors. that avoids bad practices or making compositor specific programs that wouldn’t work with other compositors.
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There is also Weston which is the reference implementaion of a Wayland compositor.