Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland
Sorry, quoting got messed up on my last email, fixed version below (I
hope)...
On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 08:15 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 06:32:20PM +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:
[...]
> > As an user of FVWM (desktop box) and xfce (laptop) I feel little
> > lost.
> > In particular it is not clear to me if it will be possible to use
> > FVWM /
> > xfce on top (X)Wayland?
> > Will be possible to use emacsclient with ssh X tunneling?
>
> See <https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland#Supported_environments>
> and <https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland#FAQ>.
>
> I don't know how up to date that wiki page is, so if there are any
> Wayland experts out there, we'd love to hear from you.
>
> As an fvwm user myself, I have absolutely no plans to move to Wayland
> at this time.
I read recently that xorg has been has been abandoned [1] "to the
extent that that means using it to actually control the display, and
not just keep X apps running."
Makes you wonder how long it will be around; I guess a fair while
though.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/x_server_lead_maintainer_declares/
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Tixy
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