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This is what I was getting at in the discussion about X window managers. There is basically no purpose to be running X at this point, when you could just run a
by SimHacker 13y ago
This is what I was getting at in the discussion about X window managers. There is basically no purpose to be running X at this point, when you could just run a web browser and implement the distributed window system inside of that instead:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876723
There are a lot of advantages to running the window manager (and ui toolkit) in the window server itself, like NeWS used to do, but X doesn't do on purpose:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845119
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5844332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5844332
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876685