#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

[lxde-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.

[piratesexmachine420]

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

[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.

[nixcraft]

X vs XOrg (X11)

[andmaybegayer]

It's a little sad but mostly funny that X11 is just fucking dying and no one is really that interested in saving it. Like you had a good run and solved a lot of problems but my god we finally have an alternative that doesn't carry so much baggage.

[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]

[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

[nerdinmadrid]

[lxde-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.

[brightgreendandelions]

so here i am writing my own (actually a fork of st) terminal in c, and we have this kind of cursed code.

so maybe anyone knows a lot about x11 and xlib and maybe a better way to look into the mime type targets, and check if it actually has the "STRING" target. because XConvertSelection forces the image/png target to be a string if you ask it for a string (i think)

[piratesexmachine420]

It is sort of retrospectively funny that the X consortium chose to bind "copy" to RMB and "paste" to MMB. There's no ways they could've known that MMB would become part of the scroll wheel, or quite how consequential RMB context menus would become, and at the end of the day it leaves your mouse inputs feeling kind of limiting in today's world.

[fairlyinteresting]

"Cool, but obscure X11 tools." (Some maybe not so obscure - Ed.)