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Xfce, LXDE, GNOME3 Desktops Running On Ubuntu Mir Via XMir

Posted by Unknown on Monday June 24, 2013 @11:45AM from the why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Through the use of XMir, a translation layer for running legacy X11 applications atop Ubuntu's forthcoming Mir display server, the GNOME Shell, Xfce, and LXDE desktops now run on this X.Org Server alternative. With XMir, the traditional window managers are still running while Mir treats these desktops as a single window."

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Re:What about wayland?? by TsuruchiBrian · 2013-06-24 12:17 · Score: 4, Funny

or XMirWayland or in case I want to run XMir in Wayland.
Re:FOSS overload by The+Mighty+Buzzard · 2013-06-24 12:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Truth. He is indeed a master baiter.

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Re:KDE by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-24 13:00 · Score: 2, Funny

KDE has been deprecated since version 4.0.
Ah, but that was before GNOME3 was released. Suddenly KDE matters again.
Re:FOSS overload by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-24 14:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Had sex once. Got bored halfway through. Went back to my Linux box. Much more interesting than trying to find nontrivial words in a language with only two words, In and Out, and one form of punctuation.