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I never used CDE for real, but during my training at a large-ish IT company, I worked on one project where our dev/testing machine was a small Sun server runnin
by krylon 4y ago
I never used CDE for real, but during my training at a large-ish IT company, I worked on one project where our dev/testing machine was a small Sun server running Solaris 8 (it's been a while). After a while, out of whimsy more than anything else, I installed an X server on my windows desktop and logged into the Sparc server via XDMCP, so I got to experience the full grey-and-pink glory for a short while.
Anyway, what I meant to say is that it makes my nostalgia bone tickle that people are maintaining this software today. I might even try it out sometime.
Anybody know if it works on Wayland? (Just kidding! Or am I?)
- pedrocr 4y agoThe apps probably run in XWayland just like any other X apps. The Window Manager is trickier but apparently XWayland has recently gained support for running a full X root so technically yes: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootfull-Desktop https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootfull-Desktop
- krylon 4y agoHuh. I was kidding, but I am amazed. 'tis a brave new world indeed.
- brirec 4y agoHuh, that’s pretty neat! But it’s not able to manage Wayland applications, is it? From the Phoronix post it almost sounds like this might be really intended run X desktops on systems that can only use Wayland?
- midislack 4y agoWayland has no software other than itself. It's useless.