Re: porting to Wayland

[Jan D.]

Hi.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen skrev den 2014-11-12 16:50:
> Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I have updated the YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu patch:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-04/msg00390.html
> >
> > It all works except some image glitches.
> > It does not add another window system, rather expands the xterm.c code.
> > I was expecting that Gtk3+ and Cairo together would let us re-enable
> > double buffering in Gtk and thus get that for free.  Unfortunately
> > this did not work, as Gtk needs to do its drawing in the event loop,
> > like the NS port needs to do as mentioned in #17124.
> >
> > I will probably check this in if I get round to writing all those
> > ChangeLog entries and fix the image things.
>
> I just got a Jolla phone running Sailfish, which is apparently a Wayland
> server without XWayland.  Would this Wayland port enable running a
> graphical Emacs on the phone, I wonder?  Somebody else has apparently
> ported a non-graphical Emacs to the phone already...

This is not a Wayland port, it is a Cairo port.  It still uses X for 
events (mouse keyboard) as Cairo does not have any of that.
Wayland would be a different beast.

        Jan D.