Official documentation
Wayland FAQ
freedesktop.org, Wayland project, n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- The official frequently asked questions for the Wayland project. It describes Wayland as a protocol between a compositor and its clients, and explains how input events and screen buffers move between them.
- How much weight it carries
- Written by the project's developers and maintained with the protocol. The FAQ is short and general, so it describes the design rather than the input behaviour of any single desktop.
Facts taken from this source
- In Wayland, the compositor sends input events to its clients.
“The compositor sends input events to the clients.” (Why fork the X server?)