The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
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The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
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Re: The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
#2Omae wa mou shindeiru.
If the future of X is uncertain, then X is already dead. No one wants to base their OS on something without a clear maintenance and development roadmap.
Re: The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
#3I'm also a heavy user of an X-only window manager (xmonad). Learning about this makes me wonder if I should start learning how to work with another window manager so I'm not caught off guard when something stops working.
Re: The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
#4So, RedHat decided that they do not want nvidia users anymore? I’d be more than happy to switch to Wayland, but I can’t.
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#5So long and thanks for all the fish. I even think X's death came late in the game
Not that it's bad per se, but it was created at a different time, for a very different use case than modern desktop computers
While there's a love for the "true Unix way", I think X is one where this is embodied the least
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#6I'm also a heavy user of an X-only window manager (xmonad). Learning about this makes me wonder if I should start learning how to work with another window manager so I'm not caught off guard when something stops working.
I'm really attached to stumpwm, which is also X-only. We have been hearing reports of the pending death of X for at least the past decade, so I'm never certain how seriously to take them, but I've kept an eye on what looks like the closest thing to a wayland implementation of stumpwm (https://github.com/malcolmstill/ulubis).
Re: The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
#7Are there any major x11 features that wayland lacks other than remote operation over a network? I think at one point it locked the refresh rate to 60hz, has that been changed?
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#8I'm also a heavy user of an X-only window manager (xmonad). Learning about this makes me wonder if I should start learning how to work with another window manager so I'm not caught off guard when something stops working.
You could try to transition to the sway wayland compositor (which is largely compatible with i3wm) or maybe to https://github.com/letoram/arcan which is a lot more programmable than sway
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#9I'm also a heavy user of an X-only window manager (xmonad). Learning about this makes me wonder if I should start learning how to work with another window manager so I'm not caught off guard when something stops working.
XMonad is (pardon the phun) very high level and a switch to any other window system should be trivial.
Re: The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
#10So, RedHat decided that they do not want nvidia users anymore? I’d be more than happy to switch to Wayland, but I can’t.
GNOME, which is what powers the RedHat desktop, supports nvidia on Wayland just fine, and KDE got nvidia/EGLStreams support since KWin 5.16. So at least 2 major DEs do, though quite a few others don't, and have taken a principled stand not to (Sway for example won't).
When it comes to RedHat though, they're all-in on GNOME anyway so keeping X around for nvidia users isn't really a concern for them when their desktop experience supports nvidia on Wayland just fine.