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| author | Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> | 2012-07-20 12:26:23 -0400 |
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| committer | Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net> | 2012-07-20 12:26:23 -0400 |
| commit | 72e023cf508c2ab017c4497e50d04631ce654550 (patch) | |
| tree | cee2260eae740c6eada9a95e7e38f2ccf7c5475b /README | |
| parent | d3a1965a3d1e8b40356c2c6fe5f7a40da315b5ff (diff) | |
| download | weston-72e023cf508c2ab017c4497e50d04631ce654550.tar.gz | |
Flesh out README a bit, link to building instructions
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@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ -Wayland Demos +Weston -This repository contains a few demos application for the Wayland -project. There's a sample compositor that can run on KMS, under X11 -or under another Wayland compositor and there's a handful of simple -clients that demonstrate various aspects of Wayland: +Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, and a +useful compositor in its own right. Weston has various backends that +lets it run on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input as well as +under X11. Weston ships with a few example clients, from simple +clients that demonstrate certain aspects of the protocol to more +complete clients and a simplistic toolkit. There is also a quite +capable terminal emulator (weston-terminal) and an toy/example desktop +shell. Finally, weston also provides integration with the Xorg server +and can pull X clients into the Wayland desktop and act as a X window +manager. + +Refer to http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html for buiding +weston and its dependencies. |