Re: Where is the Wayland process?

Franco Martelli wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed Debian 13 on a VirtualBox VM with the KDE desktop. At GUI
> login sddm let me to choose if I want to start a Plasma session with X11 or
> Wayland. Choosing Wayland, what make me wondered is that a Wayland server
> process seems missing:
> 
>    2166 tty1     Ssl+   0:00 /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland
>    2184 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper --xwayland
>    2195 ?        Rl     1:09 /usr/bin/kwin_wayland --wayland-fd 7 --socket
> wayland-0 --xwayland-fd 8 --xwayland-fd 9 --xwayland-display :1


Wayland is weird.

You're expecting a "wayland" process like the Xorg process that runs the
display, but Wayland is not implemented like that.  Instead, the window
manager (technically, the compositor) is responsible for implementing
the Wayland protocols and acting as the display server.

So, kwin_wayland is the KDE window manager and Wayland server.

As a direct result, there is no universal upgrade that applies to all
Wayland desktop environments, and fixes in one (KDE Plasma) do not even
routinely get ported over to others (GNOME, wlroots...).

-dsr-