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More like do a thing and do it once. If every WM and DE needs to do it, you have some that don't, or you have issues that are handled correctly by some DEs and
by asveikau 2y ago
More like do a thing and do it once. If every WM and DE needs to do it, you have some that don't, or you have issues that are handled correctly by some DEs and not others, etc.
- dahauns 2y agoWe're still talking about Linux, are we? Snark aside, it's still orthogonal to my question. I wasn't questioning whether it should be done centralized, but why it's supposed to be part of the display server protocol/compositor.
- account42 2y agoBecause the "display" server is also responsible for window management and input. Does it have to be this way? Perhaps not - but seperating window management and input is also not trivial. Note that more complex input methods do somewhat bypass the display server and communicate via dbus instead.
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