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thanatosincarnate@pod.geraspora.de
Thanatos die immer skurrilere Minderheit

The #wayland vs #xorg thing explained poignantly:

"Wayland and X.org are both part of freedesktop. Whatever maintenance is still happening on X.org is mostly being done by people who primarily work on Wayland. There isn’t some kind of holy war going on between The Wayland Developers who want to kill X.org, and The X.org Developers who believe it is great and want to keep it. They’re nearly all the same people, and they all want X.org to die. AFAIK there isn’t anybody who is actually clamoring to do the work of maintaining X.org upstream. There are people who don’t want it to die because Wayland doesn’t yet have the features they need or the NVIDIA proprietary driver doesn’t work well on Wayland or whatever, but AFAIK, none of those people is actually volunteering to maintain X.org long-term."

https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/2673fbfa-4d5d-4b1a-8cfe-526ef78d8ef8@fedoraproject.org/

#wayland #xorg #linux

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harryhaller@diasp.eu
harry

One of the many good aspects of gnu/linux is the huge choice of window managers (wm’s).
Live, maintained or not, they usually work and, with the obvious exceptions of gnome 3+ and kde, are not a great overhead to the system.
Below is a small random choice of wms and screen shots - to awaken, not satisfy, appetites.
I use slackware, a no-bloat distro, but even that comes with fluxbox, fvwm2, kde, mwm, twm, wmaker and xfce (default) installed.
Twm is the old and venerable wm - there are some yt vidoes about it - I like it, but I use tiling wms such as ratpoison and dwm.
You can have more than one wm running at a time - you just point each to different display numbers (0 is default)
Everything is easier if one starts the wm manually from runlevel 3 instead of having it done automatically - yet another example of how automation cripples us and makes us ignorant.

GNOME 2 - Wikipedia
GNOME 1 - Wikipedia
Sawfish (window manager) - Wikipedia
StumpWM - Wikipedia
https://stumpwm.github.io/
GitHub - michaelforney/velox: velox window manager
subtle - Overview - Subforge
GitHub - jcs/sdorfehs: A tiling window manager
ratpoison: Say good-bye to the rodent
Qtile
Openbox
Notion - Free Tiling Tabbed Window Manager
i3 - improved tiling wm
Enlightenment Main
about - awesome window manager
AfterStep - Welcome to the Official AfterStep website
GitHub - sunaku/wmii: My fork of the WMII window manager.
GitHub - 0intro/wmii: A small, scriptable window manager, with a 9P filesystem interface and an acme-like layout.
GitHub - xorg62/wmfs: Window Manager From Scratch, Minimal manual tiling window manager.
Window Maker: Home
https://vwm.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
vtwm | home
Screenshots
GitHub - conformal/spectrwm: A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
File:Dwm-screenshot.png - Wikipedia
Dwm-screenshot.png (PNG Image, 1280 × 800 pixels)
GitHub - rennhak/scrotwm: Minimalistic Window Manager for X11
pekwm: X window manager back from the past
mcwm — a minimalist window manager
LeftWM - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
jwm-2.2.png (PNG Image, 1600 × 1200 pixels)
screenshots | The IceWM Screenshots Collection
irc-layout-tab.png (PNG Image, 1440 × 900 pixels)
screenshot-full.gif (GIF Image, 1024 × 768 pixels)
FVWM-Crystal: screenshots
evilwm - a minimalist window manager for the X Window System
EMWM - Enhanced Motif Window Manager
SlackBuilds.org - cwm-openbsd
cwm - ArchWiki
cwm (window manager) - Wikipedia
GitHub - scott-parker/cwm-openbsd: Portable version of the OpenBSD cwm window manager.
CTWM — Home
CTWM — Themes
SlackBuilds.org - amiwm
amiwm
amiwm desktop gallery

#gnu #linux #unix #bsd #wm #windowmanagers #Xorg

GNOME 2 - Wikipedia

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waynerad@diasp.org
Wayne Radinsky

"Wayland breaks everything."

Wayland is a communication protocol that is intended to replace the X Window protocol that Linux computers use. It's supposed to be more modern, simpler, and more secure. But apparently it breaks a lot of programs. This page has a big list.

Wayland breaks everything

#solidstatelife #linux #xorg

Boycott Wayland. It breaks everything!

Boycott Wayland. It breaks everything! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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thleemhuisfoss@fc.leemhuis.info
Thorsten 'Computer & Softw…' Leemhuis(2/6)

Keiner von euch betreibt den X-Server noch mit Root-Rechten, oder?

https://twitter.com/kernellogger/status/1546858165857304576

#xorg

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lorenzoancora@pod.mttv.it
Lorenzo Ancora

Mozilla Firefox is slow even if hardware acceleration is enabled?

Try enabling gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled in about:config to force the use of EGL1 and then restart the web browser.
If this works, enabling layers.acceleration.force-enabled can boost your performance even more by enabling OpenGL alongside EGL. 2
This also works on Flatpak if the security permissions are correct (use Flatseal3 if needed).

Tags: #linux #gnulinux #sysadmin #gpu #gpu-linux #gpuacceleration #egl #opengl #x11 #xorg #mozilla #firefox #hack #flatpak #flatseal

https://www.khronos.org/egl/
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Make_Mozilla_Firefox_Blazing_Fast_On_Linux

EGL - Native Platform Interface

EGL™ is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system. It handles graphics context management, surface/buffer binding, and rendering synchronization and enables...

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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

I've been looking at improving the usefulness of my separate #touchscreen when using a #program like #xournalpp for making sketches and writing on a display for other to see. It works OK with #X11 but the response to touches of the #stylus on the screen is a bit frustrating. However, with #Wayland, it seems to be so much better, which means the #hardware is fine and it's the #software that is not very sensitive.

The only issue I have now is that I can only get it work as a clone of the laptop display and not as a separate screen. This works with X11 though I have to adjust things a bit with #xinput. But in Wayland, touches on the screen as configured "to the right" of the main display map back to the #mouse #cursor on the main screen and not on the touchscreen itself. Does anyone have any ideas about a possible solution?

#GNU #Linux #Fedora #KDE #Xorg