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(I'm not the one who downvoted you, so have an upvote, but) I think they renamed their reference implementation to "Weston" to differentiate it from the Wayland spec/interface. Gnome implements its own, as does KDE, as does Sway. But I'm a simple person, and in my eyes even bare Weston is "good enough" in that "startx" sort of way...

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They have a compositor named Weston, yes, but then what is libwayland, on which Gnome (and others) depend?

Wikipedia:

> Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol.

That's the C library also named Wayland and made by the people guiding the Wayland spec on which Gnome depends, no? Or are there three things going by the name Wayland, one of them not actually associated with the Wayland project?

They could have perhaps done better to differentiate All The Things, but libwayland is just a C implementation of speaking the Wayland protocol...?

AFAIUI, e.g. KDE doesn't actually use any of that. (I could be wrong, I honestly don't care that much about the minutiae.)

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