#xorg — Public Fediverse posts
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Even in the era where all major desktop environments are going Wayland-only, web browsers will ensure we never get rid of X11's traumatic memory, huh? 🫠 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2027556
Par for the course for the ecosystem where everybody pretends to be everybody because the web is a never-ending collection of hacks…
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Updated: How to Check If Wayland or Xorg Is Being Used
- Add clarity
- Add new solution
- Remove outdated solution
- Update for GNOME v48 to v50
- Update for KDE Plasma v6.6.4Find out if Wayland or Xorg is being used as the GNU/Linux display server using a graphical interface or terminal.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/find-display-server-wayland-xorg/
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When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers - FOSS Force
<https://fossforce.com/2026/04/when-your-xorg-fork-is-more-about-dei-than-display-servers/> @BrideOfLinux
@archlinux respect.
@XLibreDev the long-term kick-back is entirely predictable.
#XOrg #x11libre #DEI #diversity #equity #inclusion #Arch #Linux #XLibre
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CW: Hot take
We shouldn't get rid of #xorg, if you value backwards compatibility.
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Being able to finally fully remove the remaining Xorg packages from my computers after upgrading to Fedora 44's Wayland-only GNOME is such a satisfying moment, after decades of carrying this cruft around!
The command I used:
dnf remove xorg-x11-server-XorgI guess the drivers really are in the kernel / Mesa nowadays, because my computers are still working fine after a reboot.
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Neste vídeo, eu mostro #batman Arkham Asylum rodando em #FullHD, com qualidade no Alto, na #RX550 de 4 GB, comparando o desempenho entre #Debian13 e #LinuxMint 22.3, lado a lado.
O teste foi feito usando o mesmo hardware e as mesmas configurações dentro do jogo.
No #Debian, o jogo roda em #Wayland, enquanto no Linux Mint o teste foi feito em #X11.
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Startx doesn't work in Ubuntu CLI #commandline #xorg #cinnamon
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X.Org Is Still Alive and Just Fixed Five New Security Flaws
X.Org still receives security fixes in 2026, with five newly disclosed vulnerabilities patched in X.Org Server 21.1.22 and XWayland 24.1.10.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/...
#linux-&-open-source-news #software #wayland #xorg
https://linuxiac.com/x-org-is-still-alive-and-just-fixed-five-new-security-flaws/ -
Arch Wiki admins deleted the XLibre project page, citing Code of Conduct violations. Discover the full story behind the removal and the community's reaction.
Full story here: https://ostechnix.com/xlibre-arch-wiki-removal-explained/
#Xlibre #Archwiki #Archlinux #Displayserver #Xorg #Opensource
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This Week in Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, and a Very Full Patch Tuesday
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This Week in Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, and a Very Full Patch Tuesday
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X.Org still receives security fixes in 2026, with five newly disclosed vulnerabilities patched in X.Org Server 21.1.22 and XWayland 24.1.10.
https://linuxiac.com/x-org-is-still-alive-and-just-fixed-five-new-security-flaws/ -
Neste vídeo, eu mostro #MortalKombatX rodando em #FullHD, travado em #30FPS, na #RX550 de 4 GB, comparando o #desempenho entre #Debian13 e #LinuxMint223, lado a lado.
O teste foi feito usando o mesmo hardware e as mesmas configurações dentro do jogo.
No #Debian, o jogo roda em #Wayland, enquanto no #LinuxMint o teste foi feito em #X11.
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Neste vídeo, eu mostro #MortalKombatX rodando em #FullHD, travado em #30FPS, na #RX550 de 4 GB, comparando o #desempenho entre #Debian13 e #LinuxMint223, lado a lado.
O teste foi feito usando o mesmo hardware e as mesmas configurações dentro do jogo.
No #Debian, o jogo roda em #Wayland, enquanto no #LinuxMint o teste foi feito em #X11.
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SSD not CSD
The nice thing about that period, is that everything was keyboard driven and the mouse was only used when it was handy. The great thing about that period, is that you could do everything literally everything with your keyboard and the user interfaces were much more simple to design, modify and to expand, because it was much easier for the programmers to determine what you want based upon the fact that you are using the keyboard as input.
It started to go downhill when the scrollwheel was added.
Three buttons were enough.
Everything degenerated to CSD, while SSD is the proper way to go, and we now have hacks to force SSD in different Linux distributions. Hopefully the BSD flavours have such hacks too
If you still want SSD as much as possible, you need to use fluxbox as your DM / WM and use the considerable tweaks that @rl_dane has suggested to me in another toot in this thread, get firefox to behave normally again. You should also disable all the silly LLM stuff in ffox...
Im going to put the tweaks at work here on this SBC Pi5, I'm currently on@tragivictoria @Radio_Azureus @magitian
#GUI #TUI #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design
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# CSD
Reading up on CSD, client side decorationsClient side decorations give a lot of headaches when they're not properly implemented many of these mods should just stay with SSD, server side decorations
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> GtkHeaderBar merges the title bar, menu bar and tool bar into one unified horizontal bar to give more space to the application content, potentially reducing the amount of wasted space by showing empty bars.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_decoration?wprov=sfla1
#GUI #TUI #CSD #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design
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You're absolutely right there are worse things occuring.
But the following is a bad CSD
CSD In Firefox mobile
- Something odd was changed in the user interface; the sidebar it's actually the menu that you get when you tap on the double point in the lower right corner, was transformed into this massive monstrosity which covers the whole Android display.
- It distracts
- All the extra information is useless
- it takes many more GPU Cycles to throw that big thing on the screen
- no one was consulted within the user base would tell them that it just makes everything worse, because you don't see anything underneath
CSD Enshittification Factor
Instead of going on I'll just stick with what that still works I may need to go all the way back to that MX Linux distro which at least feels familiar and use as many clients that don't abuse CSDs
One more question; what example do you have of something that's worse than client-side decorations
IMHO the one I just referred too, is a very bad one
Quote Wikipedia:
Limitations
If the application hangs, the user cannot close it by clicking the close button in the window frame.[12]BTW to prove your point;
It took me 15 minutes to compose this lousy small message on the Android. It would have taken me 120 seconds on one of the desktops running here
All because of horrific user interfaces low free RAM and bad CSD choices on the Androidhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_decoration?wprov=sfla1
#GUI #TUI #CSD #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #user #environment #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design
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GUI TUI
Your response sheds a clear light on what's wrong, deeply wrong in this matter.
I stick to DE and window managers which feel and look like they're from decades ago. In those I don't face the horrible points you stated. I glanced at the theme on it's own and did not take these points into account.
From the perspective of UI design, many GUI's have been deliberately broken with the thin and disappearing scroll bars which are a *PITA and the removal of the menu bar by default in this bloody browser I work in ATM within standardnotes. There is so much broken in those things I would need to type a whole book full, yet very few would read it.
I always find workarounds which is what I stated in the previous stansa.You're right that 40 years of meticulous UI design, craft and tweaking should be cherished and expanded. I wonder why this trend started
I loved working in fvwm & twm and did it for years
Are there still Window and Desktop Managers left which are currently maintaned and follow the priciples as strickt as possible? What do you think of KDE in this light?
Note:
I use XFCE as my DE and love the other light one in the MX Linux distro FluxBox. The older it is the better I can fly thorugh it with my keyboard and windows behave in a standard way@rl_dane @Radio_Azureus @magitian
#GUI #TUI #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design
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Quién dijo que en GNU/Linux no se pueden hacer algunas cosas que sí hace Windows?
No señoras y señores, Linux puede hacer todo y más 😅
Screen tearing / ghosting en Linux 💻
¿Causas? 🤔
#Xorg? #lxqt? el compositor? una app que no refresca? drivers gráficos?Habrá que investigar un poco... ¿les ha pasado? 💬
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Wow and flutter from Tapes long Past
I know a man who decades ago, wanted to get a GUI {graphical user interface} on an Open Source Operating System where the coders and maintainers didn't see the need.
He primarily wanted that just for himself.**The man has neither written nor compiled one line of programming code in his life
- He first learned how to do basic coding in an interpreted language then learned the basics in C** he went to a physical library first** He has read a lot of /man/ pages in the process
- He then compiled the sources for X himself and installed it
- Next he learned how to compile a WM of his choosing and installed it
- Then he compiled X userland programs of his choosing
- After that he compiled other software that needed X windows.
It took him more than a year and a half to get so far!
He not only proofed to himself that determination and planning can get you to any achievement, he learned advanced programming and computing skills in the process. He also had a great Guru (you may guess who)
His skills became so good, that he could even write a FAQ for everyone who wants to run an OS but can't configure a X interface because they can't comprehend the (excellent, technical) documentation.
#programming #mathematics #logic #coding #interpreted #language #compiler #gcc #ASM #ln #aout #link #library #technology #C #BASIC #OpenSource #XWindows #Xorg
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A couple of my installation DVDs containing Open Source distributions from the CD and DVD era of storage.
#Linux #distro #distribution #Xorg #Legacy #programming #ALSA #OSS #technology #OpenSource #POSIX
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LINUX PARA INICIANTES - Saiu do Windows? Entenda Wayland, X11 e os ambientes gráficos no Linux
Vindo do Windows e se deparou com termos como Wayland, X11 e ambiente gráfico no Linux?
Neste vídeo eu explico tudo do zero, de forma simples e visual.Link: https://youtu.be/P9U3IR2HOlo
#ambientegrafico #wayland #xorg #windows #windows81 #windows8 #ambientedesktop #desktopenvironment #kde #kdeplasma #xfce #linustorvalds #linuxdistros #distroslinux #gnomelinux #linuxmint #linuxmintcinnamon #linux
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@thelinuxcast this post from https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/01/xorg-project-vs-xorg-foundation.html is old, but explain the different things that X.org can mean (the foundation, the project) and how they relate to #Wayland (and other things around GPU drivers).
Maybe @whot should re-publish it yearly. 😄
Sadly the post does not mention that #Xorg (without a Dot after the X!) is something different (it's the older and once widespread of two popular X-Servers the X.org project publishes these days; the other one is #Xwayland).
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@thelinuxcast this post from https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/01/xorg-project-vs-xorg-foundation.html is old, but explain the different things that X.org can mean (the foundation, the project) and how they relate to #Wayland (and other things around GPU drivers).
Maybe @whot should re-publish it yearly. 😄
Sadly the post does not mention that #Xorg (without a Dot after the X!) is something different (it's the older and once widespread of two popular X-Servers the X.org project publishes these days; the other one is #Xwayland).
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@thelinuxcast this post from https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/01/xorg-project-vs-xorg-foundation.html is old, but explain the different things that X.org can mean (the foundation, the project) and how they relate to #Wayland (and other things around GPU drivers).
Maybe @whot should re-publish it yearly. 😄
Sadly the post does not mention that #Xorg (without a Dot after the X!) is something different (it's the older and once widespread of two popular X-Servers the X.org project publishes these days; the other one is #Xwayland).
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@thelinuxcast this post from https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/01/xorg-project-vs-xorg-foundation.html is old, but explain the different things that X.org can mean (the foundation, the project) and how they relate to #Wayland (and other things around GPU drivers).
Maybe @whot should re-publish it yearly. 😄
Sadly the post does not mention that #Xorg (without a Dot after the X!) is something different (it's the older and once widespread of two popular X-Servers the X.org project publishes these days; the other one is #Xwayland).
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@thelinuxcast this post from https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/01/xorg-project-vs-xorg-foundation.html is old, but explain the different things that X.org can mean (the foundation, the project) and how they relate to #Wayland (and other things around GPU drivers).
Maybe @whot should re-publish it yearly. 😄
Sadly the post does not mention that #Xorg (without a Dot after the X!) is something different (it's the older and once widespread of two popular X-Servers the X.org project publishes these days; the other one is #Xwayland).
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@vermaden @omar
I always use alsamixer -c0 up to cxx from the OSS ALSA period since it's ncurses based & faster than GUI programs.Many things in Linux were changed for good reason, but some are questionable. I don't use systemD init is easier to maintain. It aint broke so KISS
Pipewire is fun to add FX in my signal chain to my DAW, but for serious work I have a physical FX rack.
I love pavucontrolI understand why Wayland was made and only have it on my SBC Raspberry Pi5
#Ifconfig #ip #init #systemD #Xorg #Wayland #programming #pipewire #ALSA #OSS
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LXQT has coded a point release of LXQT-config
Go and fetch it on GitHub
#LXQT #LXQT_config #programming #OpenSource #Linux #UI #Xorg #Wayland #POSIX
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2026/01/29/point-release-lxqt-config-2-3-1/
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I'm working on building the #Xorg server #XWin natively on #Windows using #MinGW. I have a 32 bit version that works fine and I'm attempting to get a 64 bit version built. I know there are a few other projects like #XMing and #VcXsrv that also have native builds of the Xorg server. I need XWin for work where I'm limited to using a Windows machine and trying to Xforward information to it. Is anyone else using XWin or interested in using an X server on Windows? #AskFedi
