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Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland
Date 2020-12-21 14:20 +0100
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 06:32:20PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:
> It seems, that main graphical UI base will be Wayland instead of X
> Window.
> If I understand correctly Wayland has no separate window  manager
> process.

I think this is incorrect.  There's still a window manager.  You just
don't get many to choose from.

> As an user of FVWM (desktop box) and xfce (laptop) I feel little lost.
> In particular it is not clear to me if it will be possible to use FVWM /
> xfce on top (X)Wayland?
> Will be possible to use emacsclient with ssh X tunneling?

See <https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland#Supported_environments>
and <https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland#FAQ>.

I don't know how up to date that wiki page is, so if there are any
Wayland experts out there, we'd love to hear from you.

As an fvwm user myself, I have absolutely no plans to move to Wayland
at this time.

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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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