• thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    X Windowing System is used in XWayland still. X11 Xorg is no longer needed. RIP X11 Xorg, you served us well.

    Edit: Thanks to the note in the comments. I obvously meant Xorg is no longer needed, which is the widely used implementation of X11 protocol. This always confuses the hell out of me.

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      4 months ago

      lol, Wayland can’t even start a desktop session on my machine, whereas X11 has worked without issues since 2009 (the last time I ever had to edit xorg.conf).

      Sure sounds like X11 is the one who’s “dead” around here!

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        Dead in the sense of development. I thought this was obvious. But I explained it for you, here you go. (Edit: I forgot to be nice. )

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          X11 is being actively developed, last commit on xserver was 7 hours ago, and it will probably continue being worked on for a long time

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            We even disagree on what “dead development” means. :D ( Edit: To add a bit substance to my reply, minimal maintenance is not actively developed in my books. )

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              And almost all (if not all of it) is done by redhat engineers which will drop it when rhel 8 or 9 (whichever one still supports xorg) goes end of life.

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      4 months ago

      With Wayland, programs still can’t restore their window position or size. It sure would be nice if they could get basic functionality working.