On 6/28/2019 12:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote:
On 6/28/19 11:26 AM, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote:
Red Hat Expecting X.Org To "Go Into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly
Quickly"
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Maintenance-Mode-Quickly
RH seems to be talking about xorg-server 1.21, but xorg-server 1.20.5
was released about a month ago (in my todo list) and the current
version in the book is 1.20.4.
It's possible that we could go to weston as a wayland implementation,
but it is unclear to me how wayland fits into the lxde, xfce, icewm,
etc window managers.
I suppose xwayland, provides the compatibility layer, but much is still
missing form wayland. #1 for me is Xfwd, yes i still forward over an SSH
connection on occasion. There is no generic interface for this yet. The
whole offloading to libpipewire looks promising, but that was intended
for screen sharing, a full environment. Waypipe is getting there, has to
run on both ends of the connection, but they are still toying with
H.264. Wayland doesn't handle all use cases just yet. Xorg will still be
around for a few years at least. We might be able to kill off the server
relatively soon, but I'm in no hurry. I've never bothered to try and
build Wayland without the entire Xorg stack. I suppose Gnome and Plasma
would be possible with libxcb* and a handful of xorg libs.
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