Wayland Protocols 1.45 was released today with new staging and experimental protocols for Wayland compositors to begin rolling out.
New staging protocols with Wayland Protocols 1.45 are Background Effects and Pointer Warp. Meanwhile new experimental protocols are for Session Management and an updated Input Method protocol.
The Background Effects protocol allows applying effects to transparent parts of a surface. The Pointer Warp protocol is for complementing pointer confinement and pointer locking to allow warming to pointer in certain situations.
The Session Management protocol added to the experimental area allows clients to restore previous sessions such as for top-level positions to remain the same across sessions.
“This release adds two new staging protocols:
* Background effects – apply effects to transparent parts of a surface that requires compositor side implementation.
* Pointer warp – complementary to the pointer confinement and pointer locking protocol, allowing warping the pointer in certain situations.Since last release, there were also two new experimental protocols
added:* Session management – allowing clients to restore previous sessions, meaning e.g. toplevel positions can remain intact across sessions.
* A new major input method protocol – intending to incrementally work towards a new protocol for input methods.”
More details on the Wayland Protocols 1.45 release via the wayland-devel mailing list.
