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>Hacks are often the correct way to do things. In this case, it's not the correct way. >I'm telling you "it works for my professional use case on X11 and doesn't on Wayland" and yo…

Like everything else in XCB, those are just stubs autogenerated from the wire protocol definition. The client has to actually implement the protocol semantics including duplicating…

Yes, I know what it is. Here are some corrections. 1. XCB is a low level binding to the X11 protocol. It doesn't really replace Xlib. Originally that was the intention, but it's no…

Replying again because you edited your comment. xbacklight, xcalib, xcape, xmodmap, xrandr, xset: These are utilities specific to configuring the X server. They're needed on non-X1…

This comment makes no sense, XCB isn't a toolkit. You might be thinking of something else with a similar acronym. But anyway, any solution that tells users to only use a small subs…

>Also they are mostly developed by full time paid employees with zero community involvement. No. Both of them have a good mix of community contributors to do the fun stuff, and pai…

Which X clients are these? You didn't name any so let's just look at some of the popular and recent flathub apps: https://flathub.org/ I see a lot of games, chat apps, text editors…

No it actually doesn't, I've heard tons of complaints about X clients not scaling correctly. Sure it might work for the subset of clients that are reading the DPI value the way you…

>Looking over the part where you imply that the MacOS App Store is the standard way to install Applications on MacOS That is the standard way. An app that has its own custom instal…

No. Even the X.org developers disagree with you here. Messing with the DPI will cause lots of clients to break even further. See this merge request for more info on this: https://g…

This is incorrect, apps installed through the macOS App Store have required sandboxing since 2012. Since 2018, Microsoft is also attempting to get developers to sandbox more apps, …

That's the same limitation as XQuartz or any other rootless X server. And you have this exactly backwards. The majority of X clients that users care about are ordinary programs, no…

If this works for you, cool. But this is... not good in any way, and it's still not going to work for clients that use a different toolkit or text renderer than the ones you've con…

>X11 is one of the few APIs that had a really long run and that everybody in the community agrees upon Outside of a very small niche of obscure window manager developers, this isn'…

Are you actually suggesting that most Linux desktop users only use the same 4 programs you do and will never use or install anything else? If that's the case then why bother with a…

No, xrandr isn't sufficient. It still doesn't have scaling information, only size information. Changing the reported physical size of the monitor is a bad idea as it can break othe…

That article is horrible. What it describes is yet another hack where clients attempt to guess the DPI and then rescale themselves, and the server and compositor know nothing about…