#arcan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arcan, aggregated by home.social.
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@letoram I was wondering what benefits #Arcan would be able to provide to a mobile OS as, let’s say, #SailfishOS. Could you you spend a minute or two to enlighten us? Thanks for sharing.
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Two lengthy blog posts and a slide deck later...
https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
https://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2026/01/26/a12web/
Done with writing for a while, finally back to coding.
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Looks like I'll be at FOSDEM if anyone from the #syndicate or #arcan worlds want to meet up lmk
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Arcan - Presentation
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So I saw someone on here mention #arcan a while back (https://arcan-fe.com/)... I finally got around to building a debian bookworm package, which was surprisingly simple to do. It has a lot of dependencies, but... this is pretty neat! You can make little lua applications that you can then VNC into. It can also act as an X11/Wayland server/client, or something? There's a lot going on, here...
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Bjørn works on a first class citizen visual impairment friendly interface to the Durden DE on Arcan display server. (A proper solution that makes Wayland obsolete.)
https://arcan-fe.com/2024/10/18/accessible-arcan-out-of-sight/
#wayland_vs_x11 #Wayland #arcan #durden #screenreader #visually_impaired #accessibility #Blind #desktop_environments #desktopdev @letoram
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@tilton Every time I catch someone mention X11 and Wayland WITHOUT mentioning Arcan as a 3rd option I do:
Arcan is the 3rd option! https://arcan-fe.com/about #Arcan #displayManager Better than the other two in many ways. -
"Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely."
My favorite answer to the X vs Wayland debacle is ARCAN. Though I run X11 because I love it.
https://arcan-fe.com/2024/09/16/a-spreadsheet-and-a-debugger-walks-into-a-shell/
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Wrote a little thing about some changes to my non-vt100 laden cli shell that turned out rather useful. #arcan #commandline
https://arcan-fe.com/2024/05/17/cat9-microdosing-stash-and-list/
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@david_chisnall @markd @solene @unix_discussions I've never heard about #Arcan but I see some some familiar #FreeBSD faces in the contributors list ;) I'll take a closer look.
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Some solid progress on desktop network transparency and related protocol work, with thanks to NGI Zero/NLnet.
https://arcan-fe.com/2023/12/19/arcan-0-6-3-i-pty-the-fool
An unexpected consequence is that half the time I don't know where things are running anymore, only where there are presenting ..
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@canadianbryan @morgant @[email protected] @royal @spaceraser @ianthetechie
Ah, I get that, and I do understand that binary compatibility != kernel compatibility, which is what's really needed for Wayland to work without a lot of porting work.
Is #Arcan ever going to be used as a display server? I'm still not clear on what it actually *is*, but I've heard some folks in the #OpenBSD world are kinda excited about it.
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Ah, yes. #Arcan. Thanks for remembering that for me ^___^
The "good" thing about X11 is that it can fall back to older protocols if the new whizbang features don't work. That's basically (afaik/iirc) how X11 maintains "network transparency," today by falling back to the oldest, gnarliest standard, since things like DRM/Xrandr/whatnot have no network transparency.
But I've probably already said more than I know. XD
