Official documentation
Introduction - Wayland (The Wayland Book)
freedesktop.org, Wayland project, n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- Chapter 1 of The Wayland Book, published by the freedesktop.org Wayland project. It explains what Wayland is, how it differs from the X Window System, and why the display server and compositor roles are combined.
- How much weight it carries
- Official project documentation maintained by the Wayland developers. It describes the design of the protocol, not the behaviour of any particular desktop, and it does not give a release date.
Facts taken from this source
- Wayland is a new display server and compositing protocol, and Weston is the implementation of that protocol.
“Wayland is a new display server and compositing protocol, and Weston is the implementation of this protocol” (Chapter 1, section The compositing manager as the display server)