X.Org Server - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_ServerXWayland XWayland is a series of patches over the X.Org server codebase that implement an X server running upon the Wayland protocol. The patches are developed and maintained by the Wayland developers for compatibility with X11 applications during the transition to Wayland, and was mainlined in version 1.16 of the X.Org Server in 2014.
Wayland - Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/WaylandXwayland. For backwards compatibility, any X program will run under Xwayland. Install the xwayland package if it wasn't brought in by your desktop of choice. If using the Weston compositor add these lines to ~/.config/weston.ini [core] xwayland=true [xwayland] path=/usr/bin/Xwayland
X Clients under Wayland (XWayland)
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.htmlX Clients under Wayland (XWayland) Wayland is a complete window system in itself, but even so, if we're migrating away from X, it makes sense to have a good backwards compatibility story. With a few changes, the Xorg server can be modified to use wayland input devices for input and forward either the root window or individual top-level windows as wayland surfaces.
XWayland
wayland.freedesktop.org › xserverXWayland support has been merged in the master X.Org branch on April 4th, 2014, and is first released with xserver 1.16. The separate X.Org video DDXes are not needed anymore. With this config it will only install the Xwayland binary and few other files: