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# Preface

This document describes the Wayland architecture and Wayland model of operation. This document is aimed primarily at Wayland developers and those looking to program with it; it does not cover application development.

There have been many contributors to this document and since this is only the first edition many errors are expected to be found. We appreciate corrections.

Yours, the Wayland open-source community November 2012

## Protocol Documentation

This document does not describe the semantics of individual messages sent between compositors and clients. Consult the following documents to learn about concrete Wayland interfaces, requests, and events.

- wayland.xml - The official documentation of the core protocol.
- wayland-protocols - Standardized Wayland extension protocols.
- wayland.app - A community-maintained website that renders these protocols, and many more, as easily accessible HTML pages.

## About the Book

This book is written in markdown and converted to HTML using mdbook.

It supports the CommonMark dialect of markdown plus a number of widely supported extensions:

- `~~strikethrough~~`

-     footnotes[^note]

      [^note]: text

-     | Tables | Header2 |
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      | abc    | def     |

-     - [x] Task lists
      - [ ] Incomplete task

-     definition lists
        : This is the definition of a
          definition list

-     > [!NOTE]
      > Admonitions

The full list of extensions is documented here.

## Copyright

Copyright © 2012 Kristian Høgsberg

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