Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: X11 forks Date: 31 Dec 2025 20:00:56 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <10if6e3$kag3$1@dont-email.me> <10igm6l$10hm7$2@dont-email.me> <10igpir$1086g$16@dont-email.me> <20251226090654.00000d42@gmail.com> <10innr9$36osk$1@dont-email.me> <10io80e$3ae14$1@dont-email.me> <10ir1kj$5kc0$1@dont-email.me> <6952385b@news.ausics.net> <6decnco7ib00ps_0nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> <6952f2ea@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net JZ6ku8zTsj2WHjN65LkOzwTXGFbVt7nxwo79juJRwcmZ9Zm+Fc Cancel-Lock: sha1:wEA4V77DU0FuYBQc6YYY9Y/TQnE= sha256:Hs7iVBXggAQB/5GvjQQgyjo2O6qG9C3rVaewP500Q44= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80192 On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:28:50 -0500, John-Paul Stewart wrote: > On 2025-12-30 10:19 p.m., rbowman wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:33:59 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >>> My sore point with Wayland is that it doesn't seem to work if the >>> machine doesn't have 3D. >> >> ??? I'm not sure if any of my machines do. How can you tell? > > Run the 'glxinfo' command (part of the mesa-utils package on Debian) in > an xterm. Near the top of the output it will say "direct rendering: > Yes" if hardware accelerated 3D is available. direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 You forgot to say 'glxinfo | less' :) I've no idea what the 464 GLXFBConfigs are telling me. I assumed all my boxes had hardware acceleration but I don't do rotating cubes, shaky windows, and all the stuff that would presumably fail.