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The main reason, as best i can tell, is that every DE out employ OpenGL compositing that effectively bypass X.

Meaning that to draw the desktop they effectively pain a single large window inside X that is then filled with the output of the GPU.

Thing is that Wayland seems more comparable to svgalib than X. This in that Wayland pretty much a lib/protocol for talking to the graphics hardware. Something else, be it their reference implementation Weston, GTK, Qt, or some other alternative, has to handle the handling of windows, desktops etc.

Right now you can use Wayland as a driver for Xorg.




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