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I have set up a keyboard shortcut to toggle my compositor on and off and tbh I find it tends to remain off most of the time, since I don't care for 'cool window
by CmdrKrool 6y ago
I have set up a keyboard shortcut to toggle my compositor on and off and tbh I find it tends to remain off most of the time, since I don't care for 'cool window effects' either. Most of the especially visual applications I use - eg. video players, games - tend to handle themselves in this respect, taking their steps for vsync as necessary. On the rare occasion that I'm offended by a bit of tearing I'll just activate the shortcut and then no problem. I just worry that with the badmouthing of X11 that goes around, one day this control - the ability to run without a compositor, if I want to - might be taken away from me.
- cycloptic 6y agoThe X server code isn't going anywhere. Somehow I feel like it will be around forever.
- wmf 6y agoI predict there will be a systemd-style debate about removing X11 by 2030 and it will be completely gone by 2040 (since someone mentioned 20 years). There won't be a single non-composited OS available at all and people born after 2000 won't really remember anything else.
- badsectoracula 6y agoThere are still distributions that do not use systemd though, e.g. two that come to my mind are Slackware if you are more conservative or Void if you prefer a rolling distro. And TBH IMO the choice of window system affects way more the day-to-day operations of a desktop oriented distribution than the init system ever did, so i expect slightly more friction about removing Xorg (as a sidenote the server is Xorg, X11 is the protocol and another server - most likely a fork of Xorg - can continue providing it if Xorg shuts down).