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Google Chrome Is Being Ported To Wayland

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 16, 2011

“Beginning last month on the Wayland mailing list there was some
activity by a Chromium contributor (example) named Daniel Nicoara.
His messages have continued and just this afternoon submitted a new
patch to fix Wayland’s incomplete frame-buffer attachment on GTK
when using the latest GTK3 tool-kit.

Wayland contributions from a Chromium e-mail address isn’t too
informative by itself, but when digging a bit deeper is when the
situation becomes more interesting.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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