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

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. Re:Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thousands of distros, tens of DE's and WM's, lots of different graphical toolkits, tons of libraries with significant overlapping functions, tons of system utils that do similar things, 6 or 7 common http servers, but TWO graphics servers? FRAGMENTATION! It's all gonna fly apart!

    You dumbass.