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Update On Wayland and X11 Support

Posted by Unknown on from the no-love-for-x11 dept.

Phoronix was at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and has two articles on the status of Wayland and X11 integration. The second talk was about the current status of Wayland, and its impending release (version 1.0 is due this summer). The developers also have an experimental GNOME-Shell working on Wayland. There's a (kind of shaky) video of this talk (attached, and at youtube for those wanting the html5 version). The first talk (by Keith Packard) covered X11 support on Wayland. It's basically ready to go, but window management is implemented only as a hack right now. The next year could be quite exciting for GNU/Linux and BSD users as distributions begin including Wayland as an alternative to X.org.

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  1. Re:Why? by Microlith · · Score: 1, Troll

    Then use TWM. Or hush and go use your dusty old Mac. Some people want eyecandy and the ability to have a dynamic desktop without feeding money into Apple's DRM-happy coffers.

  2. Re:Why? by zdzichu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thats OK, apparently Wayland is not for you. It is for distribution makers to integrate into OS. So dont worry, you should not care about Wayland. Leave it to technically knowledgable people to decide when it should be made available to casual users.

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    :wq
  3. Re:Why? by Microlith · · Score: 0, Troll

    He won't be able to use twm if you wayland faggots have anything to say about it. Can't you keep your stupid shit corralled in arch linux?

    Then step the fuck up and maintain X11 and the X11 compatibility layers for the toolkits that are out there. Don't tell other people they can't move on to newer things because it would inconvenience your lazy ass.