weston
Reference implementation of a Wayland compositor
Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, and a useful compositor in its own right.
A Wayland compositor allows applications to render to a shared offscreen buffer using OpenGL ES. The compositor then culls the hidden parts and composes the final output. A Wayland compositor is essentially a multiplexer to the KMS/DRM Linux kernel devices.
- Versions: 10.0.2
- Website: https://wayland.freedesktop.org
- Licenses: Expat
- Package source: gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm
- Builds: See build status
- Issues: See known issues
Installation
Install the latest version of weston
as follows:
guix install weston
Or install a particular version:
guix install weston@10.0.2
You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell
documentation for more information.