WayRay must work as a local desktop compositor, not just remote.
Three-tier approach:
- Tier 1: Custom X11 SHM backend (PixmanRenderer + XShmPutImage).
Works on any illumos system with X11, even VESA-only GPUs.
- Tier 2: Loopback optimization for co-located server+client,
shared memory buffer ring skipping encode/decode entirely.
- Tier 3: DRM/KMS backend for Linux or accelerated illumos GPUs.
Same compositor core, different output backend. Validated by
cocoa-way (Smithay on macOS) using the same headless+present pattern.
