#X11

[mesaprotector]

i have no idea if the "linux-official" tumblr blogs are a single group of friends having fun vs. random people, but if i were to take a url along those lines, i think i'd do "xorg-official" just because it increasingly seems i'll be stuck using xorg until 2030 thanks to my incredible stubbornness in the face of change

[tanukicomputing]

We don’t appreciate the humble Xeyes enough

Look at her beauty; 38 years old and still the peak of software

[piratesexmachine420]

Everybody who knows anything about Unix loves cowsay. It's quaint, it's fun, it's got interesting history.

Throw in a random phrase, a selection of alternate cowfiles, maybe some rainbow colors, and you've got a nice greeting for starting a terminal!

What you might not know is that the humble cowsay has a graphical sister program. xcowsay! Also many years old, but a little less flexible and a little less interesting. A similar genre to xeyes. If you're on Arch, you can find it in the AUR under 'xcowsay'. IIRC Debian has it under the same, and thus also Ubuntu and its derivatives.

I have a lot of fondness for xcowsay. If you too are fond of silly little x applications, I recommend adding a background call (&) to xcowsay or xcowfortune to your .xinitrc/DE startup script/whatever you have tied to logging in and starting X. It's fun!

[verilog-official]

i love how i cant google anything about xvideo (extension for X11) without getting like 20 results for porn

even if i search "xvideo x11" the first results are porn. ugh.

[mallory-likes-whales]

Old software design: We released eleven versions in three years and haven't changed anything in forty years. We are the standard protocol for windowing on virtually all Unix-like systems.

Modern software design: Here's more ads, also, have you considered giving us more money? Also, what do you think of a total UI rewor- nvm we did it. Perish.

[autolenaphilia]

I have to give it to X Window system. It started in June 1984, so recently had its 40th anniversary. It's been around for 4 decades, and surprisingly functional for its age. I'm currently using it to browse tumblr and watch youtube, which is insane for software that is so old.

It's flawed, and will eventually be replaced by wayland in the near future for good reasons, but will probably stick around for another few years. So many Linux desktop environments, cinnamon (my current DE), xfce, mate etc, are still reliant on X11 and will with the current rate of development will take some years to fully transition to Wayland.

40 years, and while clearly on its way out, won't be retired for another few years. That's incredible longevity.

[x11-official]

Tumblr shadowbanned/banned my previous blog (xorg-official) from replying or messaging, so I'm going to try to start again. Really, really frustrating to have to do this. If it happens again I don't think I'll try a third time. Please follow me here if you followed my older blog.

(Also why won't it let me change my avatar to match the old one...)

[scaththefloof]

okay I genuinely need help.

how in the fuck do I fix my ivy bridge cpu artifacting on X11. Wayland fixes this issue but there is a whole different ballgame of problems that get introduced and I just don't want to use bullshit software.

I know there is a way to fix this because when I used ubuntu way back when on X11 this didn't happen so what optimization do I have to do to make my iGPU stop shitting itself

and if you already didn't get it I am NOT using wayland just to fix this issue I do NOT use bullshit software.

[weedsollux]

[daemonhxckergrrl]

i doubt i could go back to stacking window management, but motif toolkit tempts me

[upper-eepy-sleepy-girl]

x11

-@x11-offical

she x on my 11 till I Fatal server error

[angieaaw]

why is x11 an app on os x mavericks

[tanukicomputing]

I’ve literately seen how, multiple times, a group of Wayland devs jump a random dude on the street, pulling him apart with their teeth and turning his bones and blood and sinew and bile and bones and skin and bones into more Wayland code; and people still think it’s okay to support it 🙄️

[piratesexmachine420]

Sometimes when I think about it too hard I end up feeling like I have a lot in common with X11

[verilog-official]

question: what exactly is the advantage of Wayland over X, other than it being newer? it doesn't really have any performance improvements as far as I've seen, a large portion of applications need to use xwayland anyway, I would be surprised if I could use older GPUs like those that can't run X with the modesetting driver (those with the old xf86 drivers)... I don't really see any reason why I should use it.

[nerdinmadrid]