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X.org and XFree86 Reform

Posted by michael on from the shifting-sands dept.

albepetr writes "NewsForge is reporting about a press conference held today at LinuxWorld 2004 in New York, where some members of the X Consortium, XFree86, and freedesktop.org announced that X.org and XFree86 have merged. They claim that the reformed group will be working together to bring "not just more eye candy but new functionality" to the X Window Manager for Linux and Unix." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN. Update: 01/23 18:06 GMT by M : XFree86.org denies the story. I think a more accurate description of the event might be something like, "XFree86 core developers leave XFree86, join X.org, remaining people of XFree86 are peeved".

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  1. Get the name right! by dabadab · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's called "X Window System" and not "X Window Manager".
    It is so mostly because it is not a window manager.

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    Real life is overrated.
  2. Re:Window Manager?? by peope · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think the parent wanted to point out that the window-managers are not part of the X-server.

    The window-managers are apps running on the X-server.

    Although. I cannot read anybodys minds =)

  3. Re:X again by echion · · Score: 5, Informative
    X is not big & slow -- this is a common misconception. X can run acceptably on iPAQs, Zauruses, and other very memory- & CPU-limited devices.

    This tiny version of X is called "KDrive" and it ships with XFree86. Read more about it here and here.

    And stop talking about "choice" when you don't even know what choices X offers.

  4. Re:Hopefully... by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Informative
    I can't tell you how infuriating it is when you go to copy a page of text from, say, openoffice.org, and paste it into a webform in Mozilla - only to find that perhaps the first half a paragraph out of 6 made it over.

    This has nothing to do with X and has everything to do with a long standing bug in Mozilla, which fails to use the X clipboard correctly. Mozilla on X has always been secondary to Mozilla on Windows/GDI, and unfortunately it shows here badly.

    Here is the buglink: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56219, you'll need to copy/paste to stop bugzilla being Slashdotted (don't bother if you aren't interested or able to understand the technical details).

    Basically Mozilla does not properly support the ICCCM protocols and as is often the way with Mozilla the bug has been blocking on one or two overworked people for a very long time.

    An object lesson in why inventing your own toolkit is a silly idea, IMHO....

  5. Re:Clippy the deamon by CommandNotFound · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, responding to my own post, X already handles non-text items in the clipboard, which would presumably be available to all remote clients. The problem is that KDE/Gnome apparently do not use these facilities.

    The link I found in a post below is here