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What is the API the clients used for rendering to the wayland client off-screen surface ? GTK defaults to OpenGL (EGL) and falls back to shared memory (ie some software rendering and a copy)
There is also an experimental Vulkan backend.
We use Xrender as the default Linux rendering pipeline today. Maybe we could use OpenGL for the X.org desktop too ? Yes, it is possible that we end up making improvements to the XGL pipeline as a consqeunece of adding EGL support for Wayland so that we could make OpenGL the default there (X.org) too. But it would be a side-benefit not the main goal.
What are people using for window decoration since the wayland model is that the client does the decoration ?I didn't catch all the options here seems there are a few
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