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Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

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Last I read wayland had serious accessibility problems.  How does fvwm
work with screen readers and similar accessibility items and is fvwm
going the way of xWindows?

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:33:39
> From: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland
> Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:33:57 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:12:05PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > Makes you wonder how long it [X.org] will be around; I guess a fair while
> > > though.
> >
> > I can't see why it'd need to be around for very long, given that it can
> > be replaced by Wayland + Xwayland.  So Xorg is only useful to the extent
> > that it supports hardware that Wayland doesn't.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that you *can't*
> use an X window manager with Wayland.  You're stuck using one of the
> window managers or desktop environments that has been ported to Wayland.
>
> If that's not true, then that changes a *lot*.
>
>

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Future of X, fvwm and wayland Kamil Jońca <kjonca@poczta.onet.pl> - 2020-12-20 18:50 +0100
  Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-21 14:20 +0100
    Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-21 16:10 +0100
      Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-21 16:30 +0100
        Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-21 18:20 +0100
          Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-21 18:40 +0100
            Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-12-21 19:40 +0100
              Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-12-23 17:40 +0100
            Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-12-22 02:30 +0100
              Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-22 14:10 +0100
                Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> - 2020-12-22 14:20 +0100
          Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-12-21 18:40 +0100

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