Getting Into KWin and Wayland

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Work on Wayland in KDE focuses on making Plasma behave the same on X11 and Wayland while gaining simpler architecture and tighter security; KWin has supported Wayland since about 2013 and a server-side helper appeared around Plasma 5.19. Key code to inspect is kwin, kwayland (client libs), kwin/kwin-wayland and kwin/plugins/platforms/drm. Use KWaylandScanner to generate Qt bindings and run KWin in a window with a separate Wayland socket (e.g. dbus-run-session … --socket academy) to debug protocol traffic.

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1. 0:00Introduction to KWin and Wayland
2. 1:06History of KWin and Wayland
3. 3:35Why Wayland matters
4. 8:17Security and control benefits
5. 11:57Wayland protocols explained
6. 14:29Key KWin and Wayland repositories
7. 16:17Navigating KWin codebase
8. 18:08Tips for developing KWin
9. 21:43Getting involved in development
10. 22:26Contributing without deep coding