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mkgreen
2y ago
No it doesn't. Xfce components can be tried with an external Wayland compositor (I've seen mentions of labwc or wayfire) but the work on xfce/xfwm4 compositor hasn't started yet.
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mkgreen
2y ago
There are other Unix systems but by far the easiest solution is simply making sure all installed apps can still behave as X11 clients. Wayland or Xwayland is not really any issue. Few people use Xorg directly, as the new deployments usually
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mkgreen
2y ago
These apps were written for X11 and NFS, so they can run on any node in a cluster. The were typically deployed on commercial UNIX systems and ported to Linux when Sun went belly up. In practice, I don't think porting them again will be
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mkgreen
2y ago
You do, but that means there is no roundabout when you need it the most. The problem occurs mostly when the dominant flow is given multiple lanes. A fairly common solution/workaround is blocking the view of the approaching traffic, for
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mkgreen
2y ago
And so is X11. We are heading for a dual stack desktops. There are tons of expensive applications that target Linux _because_ of X11 and they will rather force users to switch OSes than get rewritten.