Wayland

Wayland is a computer protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients. It is a modern replacement for the X Window System, designed to address the limitations and complexities of X11. Wayland aims to improve security, simplify the graphics stack, and enable better performance and power management. The protocol is named after Wayland, the Anglo-Saxon king, and is often referred to by its Hebrew name, וילנד. In other languages, it is known as Wayland in German, Wayland in French, and Wayland in Spanish. Key components of Wayland include the compositor, which manages the display and input devices, and the clients, which are applications that render their content to the compositor. Wayland's design emphasizes simplicity and security, with each application running in its own process and communicating with the compositor through inter-process communication (IPC). This approach reduces the attack surface and improves the overall stability of the system. Wayland has been adopted by several major Linux distributions and is gradually becoming the standard for display servers in the Linux ecosystem.