Dale <[email protected]> writes:
While Wayland is installed here, I don't actively use it. I'm
sure it
is running since things are switching in that direction tho.
Just to note, since this seems to be based on a common
misunderstanding:
Wayland is a protocol - and more loosely, a collection of
protocols[a] - not a server. There is no 'Wayland server'
analogous to an X server. One doesn't start 'Wayland' and then
start a WM/DE; one starts a compositor, which can be thought of as
a combination of a server and a WM/DE. So it's possible to have
Wayland libraries on one's system that aren't used / 'running'
until one actively starts up a Wayland compositor. Their mere
presence doesn't indicate that there must be a Wayland session
running, or that a Wayland session is required to be running.
Alexis.
[a] Cf. the Wayland Explorer, https://wayland.app/protocols/
