Message-ID: <69fd1ef0@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Wayland Makes Progress Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <10sv1kk$gjtg$1@dont-email.me> <69f472c8$0$10325$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10t8gmr$37epi$4@dont-email.me> <18ac73d880b9a55f$7676$2865982$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 8 May 2026 09:23:28 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 35 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86228 Borax Man wrote: > On 2026-05-04, Leroy H wrote: >> There will also be X11Libre: >> >> >> >> Already 606 commits since last week! >> >> Screw Wayland. Just make X great again. > > I heard some people took offence at the guy who maintains it, for some > reason or another. I appreciate the effort though I'll have to try it > out but it seems like at some point or another, as toolkits drop X > support, an X Compatibility layer will be the way forward, not XLibre. On the other hand most of my favourite programs use toolkits that won't be adapted to Wayland (GTK1/2, Motif), or are written to use Xlib directly. But for the others (Firefox, mainly) I've been expecting someone will develop such a compatibility layer for running Wayland programs on X, _long_ before I have any need for it. Sure enough a while ago I discovered this: https://git.linuxping.win/12to11/12to11 Unfortuntely it only currently claims to work with recent versions of Xorg, not X11Libre, or my personal favourite the TinyX forks. But it's early days, and with nothing I run even using GTK4 yet (and I avoid Qt entirely already), there'll probably be more options by the time I need them to keep running X. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#