Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
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Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
#2This is pretty cool - especially that it's at the point where it can be used with a real window manager.
I'm curious why multiple screens is considered legacy baggage and thus out of scope, given how common multiple monitor setups are these days. I also have zero familiarity with X internals, so don't know if multiple monitor support is a horror show that'd be miserable to support.
Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
#3This is pretty cool - especially that it's at the point where it can be used with a real window manager. I'm curious why multiple screens is considered legacy baggage and thus out of scope, given how common multiple monitor setups are these days. I also have zero familiarity with X internals, so don't know if multiple monitor support is a horror show that'd be miserable to support.
X screens are legacy. It used to be you could connect to a particular screen by number to open windows on that screen but the modern way to do it is to have one big virtual screen. X screens were like having a separate X server for each monitor, but with a single shared cursor and shared VRAM. You can see why that's an obsolete model.
Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
#4This is pretty cool - especially that it's at the point where it can be used with a real window manager. I'm curious why multiple screens is considered legacy baggage and thus out of scope, given how common multiple monitor setups are these days. I also have zero familiarity with X internals, so don't know if multiple monitor support is a horror show that'd be miserable to support.
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Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
#5This is pretty cool - especially that it's at the point where it can be used with a real window manager. I'm curious why multiple screens is considered legacy baggage and thus out of scope, given how common multiple monitor setups are these days. I also have zero familiarity with X internals, so don't know if multiple monitor support is a horror show that'd be miserable to support.
Probably because Xinerama[1] and then later RandR[2] were an afterthought.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama [2] https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xr...
Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
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Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
#7Why? Wayland hasn't been smooth sailing by any stretch but it's still time to let X die.
Also this is slop.
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No.
Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
#9This is pretty cool - especially that it's at the point where it can be used with a real window manager. I'm curious why multiple screens is considered legacy baggage and thus out of scope, given how common multiple monitor setups are these days. I also have zero familiarity with X internals, so don't know if multiple monitor support is a horror show that'd be miserable to support.
X screens are legacy. It used to be you could connect to a particular screen by number to open windows on that screen but the modern way to do it is to have one big virtual screen. X screens were like having a separate X server for each monitor, but with a single shared cursor and shared VRAM. You can see why that's an obsolete model.
Yep. When did virtual screens come in? My last full time experience with X was with Xsun in the early 2000s under Solaris. There was a shared cursor, I thought you could drag windows between monitors, but I also thought the DISPLAY variable was different for each (though I could be misremembering)
Re: Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
#10Why? Wayland hasn't been smooth sailing by any stretch but it's still time to let X die. Also this is slop.
Maybe it’s more about the journey and not the destination.