Hacker News with Generative AI: X11

Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager (github.com/emacs-exwm)
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.

Emacs, Window Managers, X11, Programming, Software

116 points by tosh 12 days ago | 32 comments

Wayland isn't going to save the Linux desktop (dudemanguy.github.io)
As you all know, the Linux desktop is dominated by Xorg. The X11 protocol originated in the 80s which later ended up being adopted by Linux desktop systems. It survived all the way to this day as Xorg, and I'm using it right now to make this post. While it is remarkable that X11 has survived so long, it's certainly not flawless. There's some questionable parts of the core protocol and old legacy baggage that is still carried to this day.

Linux, X11, Operating Systems, Wayland

9 points by fanf2 17 days ago | 11 comments

A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility (2013) (theresistornetwork.com)
I recently scored a Hewlett Packard 1670A Deep Memory Logic Analyzer and I finally had a chance to fire it up.

Hardware, Retro Computing, X11

14 points by tosh 32 days ago | 0 comments

GTK's X11 Back End Now Deprecated, Planned for Removal in GTK 5 (phoronix.com)
GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brussels.

GTK, Software Development, Linux, Open Source, X11

5 points by airhangerf15 80 days ago | 0 comments

GTK's X11 Back End Now Deprecated, Planned for Removal in GTK 5 (phoronix.com)
GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brussels.

GTK, Software Development, Open Source, Deprecated Features, X11

17 points by LorenDB 84 days ago | 6 comments

Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
Yesterday, I read this blog post: Wayland Cursor Lag: Just give me a break already..., where a Linux user discusses their frustration with input latency under Wayland. They detailed their own subjective experience of the problem, but failed to produce hard evidence.

Linux, Wayland, X11, Input Latency, Performance

610 points by todsacerdoti 89 days ago | 488 comments

An X11 apologist tries Wayland (artemis.sh)
I think it’s only fair to call me an X apologist. I get incredibly frustrated when people talk about dropping support for X11. I fight back against the notion that some day X11 will be dead and unmaintained, a curiosity of a time before. I’ve spoken to people in my circles at-length about the accessibility tools that Wayland simply hasn’t been capable of supporting that X11 has.

X11, Wayland, Linux, Open Source, Accessibility

14 points by fanf2 116 days ago | 0 comments

CVE-2024-9632 xorg-x11-server: heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation (redhat.com)
CVE-2024-9632 xorg-x11-server: tigervnc: heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability

Security, Vulnerability, Linux, Software, X11

3 points by todsacerdoti 178 days ago | 0 comments

Improving Xwayland window resizing (vladzahorodnii.com)
One of the quickest ways to determine whether particular application runs using Xwayland is to resize one of its windows and see how it behaves, for example

X11, Linux, User Experience, Software, Performance

158 points by TangerineDream 179 days ago | 186 comments

Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI (windowmaker.org)

Window Managers, X11, User Interfaces, Operating Systems

262 points by lnyan 240 days ago | 135 comments

Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard” (github.com/Zirias)