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SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support


An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions is Wayland multi-seat support

An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions is Wayland multi-seat support. Merged on Saturday to mainline SDL3 Git is multi-seat support for allowing multiple keyboard/pointer inputs simultaneously for different concurrent users. This Wayland multi-seat support for SDL could be useful for split-screen multi-player games and similar purposes.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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