Ubuntu moving towards Wayland

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:57:56AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:11:22AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> > Interesting move: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551
> > 
> > Has anyone looked into bringing Wayland to Fedora? If not this might be the 
> > right time getting involved in the discussion.
> > 
> > http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
> 
> What's the implication for people who absolutely need to use
> X applications remotely?

You can run an X server as a client of Wayland, so you should get full
compat with any existing X app usage. Similar to how you can run an X
server under OS-X or Win32.

Regards,
Daniel
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