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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."

5 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Hello by gagol · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fragmentation and second class citizens.

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  2. Re:KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Kwin developer is an avowed Ubuntu hater. I believe he's indicated that he'll code kwin to not work if it detects Mir. Such is the bizarre, irrational hatred of anything Canonical/Ubuntu.

  3. Re:KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    KDE has been deprecated since version 4.0.

  4. Re:Multiple Displays? by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Sad thing is Windows 98 SE happily

    Probably not. You may not even be old enough to have even touched it yourself ever.

    Mixing multiple vendors for different displays isn't even a recommended Windows setup now.

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  5. Shittleworth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And next out of the Lennux^WCanonical camp...

    kerneld! The replacement for the Linux kernel that runs as a service!