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Next Generation X11

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-love-it dept.

Rene Rebe writes "The German News site Golem is running a report (babelfish translation) about the next generation X11 projects, like the OpenGL X-Server Xgl, Luminocity as well as Enlightenment 17. The report is including many screenshots and five videos."

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  1. X11 must die by lazy_arabica · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know I'm going to be modded flamebait and all, but X11 should die now, and let place to a modern windowing system. It's just too archaic to be fast, no matter how many extensions you put on it.
    I tried Luminocity a few weeks ago. It looks nice, and achieves pretty good performances when moving windows around ; even with the "wobbly" windows effect, it doesn't take more than 5% of CPU time. But resize a single dialog, and it's a mess.
    I know this slowness partly comes from the fact that it's "plugged" on a totally unaccelerated X server. But frankly, a "native" X11, with the latest proprietary NVidia drivers and the RENDER extension enabled isn't _that_ fast. A complex GTK window can only redraw 5 or 6 times per second on my Pentium IV 3 GHz (Qt seems to be a little faster). Luminocity will never reach the smoothness of the MacOS X GUI that way.
    The next version of GTK should support Cairo as a rendering engine, which can use OpenGL as a backend. A luminocity + Cairo-GTK will only use X11 as a way to get OpenGL contexts. Perhaps could we try to get away from the bloated X.org, then ?