Does anyone have a guide to getting i3 to work using this?
X410 – X Server for Windows 10
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Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10
#112How does this website prevent me from zooming in on iOS?
In general why do sites or apps feel the need to block this, drives me nuts.
It used to be the case that if zooming was enabled, every normal tap would have a 300ms delay on iOS Safari. Iirc they fixed that since (not sure how, can anyone recall?). But basically most mobile web apps built a few years ago would disable zoom so they got snappy interaction.
Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
What benefits do you see from running windows? I really see none as a software dev and os enthusiast. The only reason I kept windows so long was for a game that I stopped playing 2 years ago, and the only reason I have to use it now is because the company I currently work in has made us use it. WSL makes me embarrassed to show my work colleague how good linux/vim/tmux really is (but that might be because the laptop's…
Well, you list one of the benefits of running Windows, you can keep working at your company :p. Many companies don't allow running Linux natively. For example, because Office and Outlook are considered mandatory tools. There is other software, which is only available on Windows or the Mac. Also, it is still not a trivial thing to buy a random laptop and get full hardware support, especially with very new hardware. No…
In some business sectors I see increasing demand for bottom-up-open-stack, going as far as inquiring about "Open-Firmware-no-BLOB" computing devices for all important tasks, including network and domain control, where "legacy client application systems like Windows/Outlook/Office" are relegated to isolated TS-Servers, and are being replaced by glorified thin-clients, with a local browser, media-decoder, and RDP-RemoteApp-client, all running open stack. Currently the problem here is the availability of ARM system with user-configurable TrustZone support.
But O.K., I admit, we also have a lot businesses wanting less paranoid data security practices for the sake of convenience, or other legacy Apps/Hardware.
Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10
#114This is getting weird, you pay for windows to use WSL then pay $50 for an X server clone... who wants to try this hard to not use the Linux kernel?
Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10
#115If someone could make Windows applications render on an X Server I'd be so happy.
That's what Wine does (and it often works surprisingly well).
I can't tell if you guys are joking... are you seriously suggesting:
windows kernel > WSL > proprietary x-server clone > WINE > windows apps
This is madness
Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10
#116They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how much is just repackaging of one of the multitude of open source X servers for Windows that are currently available. Originally thinking it was another open source project, I looked at the website to see if there were some features that wou…
I don't think there is anything wrong with paying for software. Free software isn't about the price, it's about the liberty,freedom of the software itself.
Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what Wine does (and it often works surprisingly well).
I can't tell if you guys are joking... are you seriously suggesting: windows kernel > WSL > proprietary x-server clone > WINE > windows apps This is madness
I'm not ZetaLemur, but I don't believe he was suggesting what you are interpreting into this suggestion.
I believe he means: "If at all possible, run your legacy windows-only applications on local Linux running on real Hardware with WINE"
Re: X410 – X Server for Windows 10
#118I (and most of my colleagues) stopped using vcxsrv at my workplace since we moved from Qt4 to Qt5. At some point in between, Qt stopped supporting native X11 painting[1] which means all of the graphics are now drawn as bitmap at server side and sent in whole to the client. That easily hoses up our network. The problem is more exarcebated now that Japan has declared state of emergency and everyone is urged to work fro…
X also doesn't really work if you UI is implemented with OpenGL or similar.
I've been using NoMachine and it works very well. Others I know are using Teradici, or HP Remote Graphics.
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#119Wow, this looks really cool.
I'm honestly really wondering how they got hidpi support, since, AFAIK, Xorg did not support hidpi (this one of the new things Wayland brought to the table).
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I use Linux everyday. But misrepresenting the desktop experience isn't going to get people to switch. I really enjoy the endless battle with tearing, which sometimes is fixed, other times not. I also enjoy the battle of multi-monitor setup with different DPIs and scaling issues, mixing 1440p and 4k monitors. As for browser hardware acceleration, hell, even on Windows, Firefox (on my end, and for many others) have s…
I use Linux every day and your narrative doesn't add up. I haven't done any configuration other than installing the GPU driver, that comes conveniently packaged in my distro. I don't have a Windows VM. I don't have a last generation video card or anything of the sort. This is my perspective: 1) HiDPI issues are indeed annoying, but in 2020 much of it is gone. 2) I don't have the video problem you are describing. 4K 6…
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