Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low

From	Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low
Date	2023-01-05 18:11 +0000
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 11:33:39 +0000
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> Dan Espen wrote:
> 
> > Andy Burns writes:
> > 
> >> what do people actually want X11 for now?
> > 
> > To keep running the same WM I've been using for decades.
> 
> I fall into the category where Gnome (my distro's default) as a WM doesn't annoy 
> me enough to use anything different, I did use XFCE for a bit, and now I don't 
> know which do/don't work with wayland ... that's what I meant by "fizzle out" if 
> your favourite WM doesn't support wayland, eventually it's going to find it self 
> beached without X11 to run on top of ..

I was under the impression that one of the plans for Wayland was to be able
to run X server on top of it so that all X11 applications would continue to
work. Has this plan been abandoned ?

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Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 18:11 +0000
  Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-01-05 19:33 +0000
    Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 20:32 +0000
    Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-08 03:00 +0000
      Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-01-09 06:57 +1000
  Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-01-09 08:16 +0100
    Re: [LINK] X11 Server Development Pace Hits A Two Decade Low Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-01-09 19:32 +1000

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