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Jay🚩 to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess

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40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess

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Jay🚩 to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
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One astrophysics professor's memories of writing X11 code in the 1980s.
  • @SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net
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    No feelings either way, I started using X since the last millennium and have been on Wayland without problems (Gnome or sway, never anything more than integrated graphics card) for about four years now.

    But I really wish there was an fvwm for Wayland. And Window Maker.

    • @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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      Why is CDE not on the list?

    • @FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
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      https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker

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