Philippe Gaultier • 10/12/2023

Learn Wayland by writing a GUI from scratch

This article provides a step-by-step guide to creating a simple graphical user interface (GUI) using the Wayland protocol. Written in C without any external libraries, it covers fundamentals like opening a socket, creating a registry, handling shared memory for the frame buffer, and reacting to compositor events. It's a hands-on, low-level tutorial for developers interested in understanding Wayland's asynchronous client-server architecture.

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#low-level programming #c #X11