<para>
Compositors come in different types, depending on which
role they play in the overall architecture of the OS.
+ For instance, a
+ <link linkend="sect-Compositors-System-Compositor">system compositor</link>
+ can be used for booting the system, handling multiple user switching, a
+ possible console terminal emulator and so forth. A different compositor, a
+ <link linkend="sect-Compositors-Session-Compositor">session compositor</link>
+ would provide the actual desktop environment. There are many ways for
+ different types of compositors to co-exist.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In this section, we introduce three types of Wayland compositors relying
+ on <link linkend="sect-Library-Server">libwayland-server</link>.
</para>
<section id="sect-Compositors-System-Compositor">
</para>
<para>
X applications can continue working under a session compositor
- by means of a root less X server that is activated on demand.
+ by means of a root-less X server that is activated on demand.
</para>
<para>
Possible examples for session compositors include
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
+ Weston with X11 or Wayland backend is a session compositor nested
+ in another session compositor.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
fullscreen X session under Wayland
</para>
</listitem>
]>
<chapter id="chap-Library">
<title>Wayland Library</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The open-source reference implementation of Wayland protocol is split in two
+ C libraries, <link linkend="sect-Library-Server">libwayland-server</link> and
+ <link linkend="sect-Library-Client">libwayland-client</link>. Their main
+ responsibility is to handle the Inter-process communication
+ (<emphasis>IPC</emphasis>) with each other, therefore guaranteeing the
+ protocol objects marshaling and messages synchronization.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This Chapter describes in detail each library's methods and their helpers,
+ aiming implementors who can use for building Wayland clients and servers;
+ respectively at <xref linkend="sect-Library-Client"/> and
+ <xref linkend="sect-Library-Server"/>.
+ </para>
+
<xi:include href="WaylandClientAPI.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<xi:include href="WaylandServerAPI.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</chapter>