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weston-16.0.0

reference Wayland compositor

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Description

Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. It is a lean, fast compositor with a modular architecture supporting multiple backends (X11, Wayland, headless) and a plugin-based shell interface. It includes a set of demo and test clients demonstrating the Wayland protocol, as well as XWayland support for running X11 applications.

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Ports path
wayland/weston
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
wayland
Available flavors
None listed

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