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The GSoC Idea

July 7, 2017

Let's explore the basic idea for my Google Summer of Code project for X.Org. This means talking about how Xwayland currently handles the graphic buffers of its applications, why this leads to tearing and how we plan to change that.

Understanding Xwayland - Part 2 of 2

June 30, 2017

After last week's overview of XWayland we will dig deeper this time into the inner workings of XWayland.

Understanding Xwayland - Part 1 of 2

June 23, 2017

In this week's article for my ongoing Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project I give an overview of XWayland's inner working.

Google Summer of Code - now with X.Org

June 16, 2017

One of my project ideas got accepted to Google Summer of Code and I now have the opportunity to work on a very interesting project concerning Xwayland for the X.Org Foundation.

Correcting Mistakes From the Past

May 20, 2017

Not only, but to a large extent I worked in the last few months on foundational improvements to KWin's DRM backend, which is a central building block of KWin's Wayland session.

KDE! What Have I Done?

December 26, 2016

We count the last days of 2016 so it's time for a little recap.

First!

August 23, 2016

So, here we have one more programmer's blog.