Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland

From	Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland
Date	2020-12-21 18:40 +0100
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Stefan Monnier (12020-12-21):
> 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.

Quoting
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch05.html#sect-X11-Application-Support-xwm
:

# From the X11 point of view, the X window manager (XWM) living inside a
# Wayland compositor is just like any other window manager.

So no, Xwayland cannot replace X.org: it cannot run window managers,
since only one window manager can run, and there's already one
hard-coded.

For the purpose of this very thread, this is completely unacceptable.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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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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