Thank you for sending me on a trip down memory lane. :) Still can't believe that most of this stuff is from +/- 10 years ago. Getting old is weird. Julien Danj

Thank you for sending me on a trip down memory lane. :) Still can't believe that most of this stuff is from +/- 10 years ago. Getting old is weird. Julien Danjou, original awesomewm author, ruminates on the X11 saga and the resistance to XCB in [0], dated 2010-06-01. While that post expresses the bleak outlook for X11 and the Freedesktop project in general, it seems the real clincher about the freeze on awesomewm comes from a LWN article from November 2011 [1], which quotes Julien thus: "The missing parts are advanced stuff like new XInput and multi-touch support, but we were blocked by XCB for those, and users seem to be able to live without them. Now, since everyone seems really happy with the 3.4 branch, I think it's enough that we just keep maintaining it." Taken together, my interpretation at the time -- and I think the general community consensus -- was that the hours and days spent rebuilding cairo to enable the XCB backend and then rebuilding anything that depended on it, which was (is?) basically every substantial Gtk application, were not going to get any easier. Venturing into the comments on that article and seeing the links to issues with users pleading for distro packagers to enable XCB out of the box brings the old days flooding right back. [0] https://julien.danjou.info/thoughts-and-rambling-on-the-x-protocol https://julien.danjou.info/thoughts-and-rambling-on-the-x-pr... [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/467559/ https://lwn.net/Articles/467559/