Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre!

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre!
Date	2025-06-12 15:10 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
Message-ID	<slrn104lr0j.1qmpe.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> (permalink)
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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote at 22:44 this Wednesday (GMT):
> In comp.os.linux.misc Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
>> The fine(sic) folks at Freedesktop.org also want to remove
>> X11 support from the GTK+ toolkits.  If this happens then
>> the effects will be as bad as terminating X11 itself.
>
> For people who use lots of 'fancy' software maybe, but the GTK
> programs I use see little change and are mostly still GTK1/2. The
> few exceptions can be run in Wayland displaying to an X window if
> one day they refuse to talk X11 directly. Just like most programs I
> use would be running in XWayland if I pointlessly moved to Wayland.
>
> Other people have clearly arrived at very different personal
> software choices for Linux, and Wayland might suit them, so they
> can have it. My main inconvenience might be if major distros
> spitefully stop packaging an X server or fixing bugs in those
> packages, but then I can still build it myself (from whichever
> fork takes my fancy).

Bad news, Ubuntu isn't including X11 by default anymore.

> From a packaging point-of-view, Debian's statistics show that
> their xorg-xserver package is more popular than ever, so maybe I
> shouldn't be worried about that either?
>
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=xorg


Hopefully.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-06-10 19:16 +0000
  Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-10 15:30 -0400
    Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-06-10 12:42 -0700
    Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-06-10 20:16 +0000
      Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-10 16:19 -0400
        Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-06-10 13:24 -0700
      Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-11 03:05 +0000
        Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-06-11 05:59 +0000
          Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-06-11 09:42 +0000
            Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-11 05:53 -0400
            Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-11 12:34 +0200
            Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-06-11 12:19 +0000
              Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-11 13:53 +0100
              Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-06-11 14:37 +0000
              Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-06-11 15:56 +0100
                Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-06-12 10:58 +0000
                freebsd Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-06-12 15:37 +0100
                Re: freebsd c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-12 14:52 -0400
                Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-06-12 11:21 -0400
                Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-12 21:36 +0000
            Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-12 08:44 +1000
              Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-06-12 15:10 +0000
                Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-06-12 19:10 +0000
        Re: Fuck Wayland! Now We Got X11Libre! Uwe Bonnes <bon@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> - 2025-06-11 19:23 +0000

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