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Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

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Sorry, quoting got messed up on my last email, fixed version below (I
hope)...

On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 08:15 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 06:32:20PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:
[...]
> > 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.

I read recently that xorg has been has been abandoned [1] "to the
extent that that means using it to actually control the display, and
not just keep X apps running."

Makes you wonder how long it will be around; I guess a fair while
though.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/x_server_lead_maintainer_declares/

-- 
Tixy

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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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