#windowsystem — Public Fediverse posts

Found the original announcement at last:

"From: rws@mit-bold (Robert W. Scheifler)
To: window@athena
Subject: window system X
Date: 19 Jun 1984 0907-EDT (Tuesday)

I've spent the last couple weeks writing a window
system for the VS100. I stole a fair amount of code
from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather
than a synchronous interface…"

https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

#x11 #windowsystem #unix #gui

Some old but fascinating notes on the history of window systems by David Rosenthal, who worked on X-Windows and NeWS.

The post starts by commenting some remarks by Alan Kay on browser architecture and goes from there, discussing the work of other pioneers and their own comments. It covers display PostScript and other interesting system design ideas.

https://blog.dshr.org/2021/03/history-of-window-systems.html

#retrocomputing #WindowSystem #gui

I tried #Wayland with #KDE when I was using #Fedora29 but found that it lacked some of the features present in the #X11 version and so I quickly reverted to the latter. In #Fedora30, things seem to be better and so I might try it out for longer.

#GNU #Linux #Compositor #WindowSystem #F30 #Fedora

I tried #Wayland with #KDE when I was using #Fedora29 but found that it lacked some of the features present in the #X11 version and so I quickly reverted to the latter. In #Fedora30, things seem to be better and so I might try it out for longer.

#GNU #Linux #Compositor #WindowSystem #F30 #Fedora