page_title: Wayland (display server protocol)
hierarchical_section_title: Wayland (display server protocol)
caption_attribution_description: English: Running on latest Archlinux, running some demos shipped with the Weston package.
context_page_description: 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. A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.
  Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg as a free and open-source community-driven project with the aim of replacing the X Window System with a modern, secure, simpler windowing system in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The project's source code is published under the terms of the MIT License, a permissive free software licence.
  As part of its efforts, the Wayland project also develops a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor called Weston.
context_section_description: 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. A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.
  Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg as a free and open-source community-driven project with the aim of replacing the X Window System with a modern, secure, simpler windowing system in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The project's source code is published under the terms of the MIT License, a permissive free software licence.
  As part of its efforts, the Wayland project also develops a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor called Weston.
caption: Weston, the reference implementation of a Wayland server.
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