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> What about the fact that X.org itself is ... falling apart Works for me, and has for literal decades. > ...without active maintenance... This update to xor

> What about the fact that X.org itself is ... falling apart Works for me, and has for literal decades. > ...without active maintenance... This update to xorg-server was stabilized on April 14th, and it looks like library changes required me to rebuild and reinstall it like two days ago: $ eix -I xorg-server [I] x11-base/xorg-server Available versions: 21.1.13(0/21.1.13)^t **9999(0/9999)*l^t {debug +elogind minimal selinux suid systemd test +udev unwind xcsecurity xephyr xnest xorg xvfb} Installed versions: 21.1.13(0/21.1.13)^t(03:15:55 PM 05/03/2024)(elogind udev xorg -debug -minimal -selinux -suid -systemd -test -unwind -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb) Homepage: https://www.x.org/wiki/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg-server Description: X.Org X servers > ...and governance the writing is on the wall for X.org. Weird. Looks like they're running Board of Directors elections. [0] [0] <https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-March/thread.html https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-March/thread.ht...>

NekkoDroid 3y ago
> Weird. Looks like they're running Board of Directors elections. [0] Just so you know: The X.Org Foundation also oversees Wayland.
bitwize 3y ago
There's X.org the software and X.org the foundation. X.org the foundation is electing a board of directors. They're also all-in on Wayland.
- ori_b 3y ago
  And regularly releasing new x server versions. It seems like there's a new release every couple of months. For example, in January this year, xrandr got code to allow for multiple virtual monitors on a physical display. In April, there were 2 bugfix releases.
  - simoncion 2y ago
    Yep. If they were all-in on Wayland, they wouldn't be making regular xorg-server releases, and definitely wouldn't be adding new features to xorg components. (Because, yanno, they wouldn't have any staff available to do those things.)

NekkoDroid 3y ago

> Weird. Looks like they're running Board of Directors elections. [0] Just so you know: The X.Org Foundation also oversees Wayland.

bitwize 3y ago

There's X.org the software and X.org the foundation. X.org the foundation is electing a board of directors. They're also all-in on Wayland.

ori_b 3y ago
And regularly releasing new x server versions. It seems like there's a new release every couple of months. For example, in January this year, xrandr got code to allow for multiple virtual monitors on a physical display. In April, there were 2 bugfix releases.
- simoncion 2y ago
  Yep. If they were all-in on Wayland, they wouldn't be making regular xorg-server releases, and definitely wouldn't be adding new features to xorg components. (Because, yanno, they wouldn't have any staff available to do those things.)