How do Wayland clients communicate with the server?

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I know that the X window system protocol was based over a network, and this is how clients communicate with the X server. Now Wayland seeks to remove this network reliance.

My question is, how are Wayland clients supposed to communicate with the compositor? What is the medium for the protocol messages?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 06 '21 at 07:20

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https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch04.html#sect-Protocol-Wire-Format

The protocol is sent over a UNIX domain stream socket

edited Jan 06 '21 at 07:20

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How do Wayland clients communicate with the server?

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