The developers of this window manager are trying to provide Wayland support

Aug 23, 2013 09:23 GMT  ·  By

Enlightenment E19, a lean, fast, modular and very extensible window manager that provides all the necessary packages to run a desktop, will provide support for Wayland.

A lot of developers have shown their support for Wayland, including the ones from KDE. The Enlightenment team are betting on Wayland and say that their next version of E19 will feature some interesting capabilities, and they have an image to show for it.

“This is E18 (not visible) running Xephyr which is managed by E19(X) which has a rootless, Wayland-only E19(W) compositor (NOT a Weston shell) running inside.”

“Both instances of E19 have a Wayland SHM engine Terminology running on the left and a protocol-native (X window on the outside, Wayland surface on the inside) compositor settings window on the right,” reads the entry on the official blog.

It's not sure when we are able to test the new E19 window manager, but if we judge by the speed of the E17 releases, it can't be that long.