Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-09 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019, Steve Litt wrote: It's one thing to support an alternative: Quite another to call for the death of the original. Unfortunately it is not an alternative as I wrote before. X11 is among other things a standard. If wayland imposes itself, we will have soon programs for X an

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 06:01:52PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [...] > I use Openbox with program instantiation via dmenu. Now here's the > thing: dmenu is written in pure X: No qt, no gtk, no xforms. Dmenu > does its job perfectly, so quickly that instantiation from hotkey is > imperceptable, as is m

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 23:26:18 +0200 Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:18:18PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > [...] > > > > Frankly, there is not much point in non-developers discussing > > whether additions to base are acceptable. Feel free to suggest > > Well, whatever developers

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:18:18PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: [...] > > Frankly, there is not much point in non-developers discussing > whether additions to base are acceptable. Feel free to suggest Well, whatever developers come up to, I hope I will be able to continue using FVWM, on top or in

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-02 Thread lists
Tue, 2 Jul 2019 10:31:21 -0700 John Brahy > Thanks for the Wikipedia link. I never researched sentence spacing before. Of course, and to reward the patience of reading to the end of the noise: Template: X Window System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:XWinSys > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 9:3

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-02 Thread lists
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:09:01 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > li...@wrant.com writes: > > Worthless thread, worthless comments, annoying Matthew.. STOP spamming. > > Well you're not wrong so there's no need to keep the public involved. It's best discussed in public or not discussed at all, so list include

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-02 Thread lists
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:19:17 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > > Matthew Worthless thread, worthless comments, worthless Matthew. STOP spamming.

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-02 Thread chohag
li...@wrant.com writes: > Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:40:35 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > > > > Also I don't need to fix your email system's inability to classify spam. > > YOUR mail server reputation is negative, fix your setup.. STOP spamming. IWFM Matthew ps. Two dots *and* two spaces? Try harder.

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-02 Thread lists
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:40:35 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > > Also I don't need to fix your email system's inability to classify spam. YOUR mail server reputation is negative, fix your setup.. STOP spamming. > Matthew >

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread chohag
li...@wrant.com writes: > You're misreading something, or talking to yourself, making corrections. > Your emails ended up in the spam twice so far, do something about that.. Two dots again? We've been over this. > Your emails came in as spam twice so far, maybe do something about that? Get it to

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Johnny Stacks
I just love reading the drama that's always on this list. I've been using OpenBSD since 2.0 and the decisions of the team never failed me even when gobbles did his thing. If X11 wasn't secure enough for OpenBSD then Theo and his crew would write OpenX. They've fixed NetBSD, SSH, and generally avai

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
I will reply you to clarify some things but I agree with Ingo and we should let the thread die. On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:11:37PM +, Roderick wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > Can you show me what missing Wayland part is bigger than DRM+Mesa+LLVM?.

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread lists
Mon, 1 Jul 2019 12:52:56 -0700 Michael Forney > On 2019-07-01, Roderick wrote: > > Namely, the only free implementation of EGL is Mesa 3D. And EGL is > > needed by Wayland. > > I'm not an OpenBSD user, just an interested bystander, but I want to > point out that the second part of this stateme

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Michael Forney
On 2019-07-01, Roderick wrote: > Namely, the only free implementation of EGL is Mesa 3D. And EGL is > needed by Wayland. I'm not an OpenBSD user, just an interested bystander, but I want to point out that the second part of this statement is false. Wayland also supports shared memory buffers. In

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread lists
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:52:24 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > li...@wrant.com writes: > > Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:09:41 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > > > > > > I don't think I'll be relying on software from such confused individuals > > > any time soo > > n. > > > > Since when? Make a note: your long lines will n

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: Can you show me what missing Wayland part is bigger than DRM+Mesa+LLVM?. What do you want to say with the question? As far as I understand, neither DRM nor Mesa are parts of (original) X11. Further, you read in Wikipedia: --

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread chohag
li...@wrant.com writes: > Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:09:41 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > > > > I don't think I'll be relying on software from such confused individuals > > any time soo > n. > > Since when? Make a note: your long lines will never fit on a punch card. I haven't used a punch card since ... wel

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread chohag
Ingo Schwarze writes: > the voice of reason. Listen to it. Matthew

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Ali Farzanrad
Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 06:39:01PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:13:44 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:20:20PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > > > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 00:46:33 +0200 Juan Francis

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread chohag
Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado writes: > Can you show me what missing Wayland part is bigger than DRM+Mesa+LLVM?. Probably, but that's not my problem. > After the personal attack, I was hoping a more elaborated answer. There was no personal attack. That you feel there was reveals little more tha

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Leonid, Leonid Bobrov wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:41:41PM +0300: > No, you three (...) are wrong, I doesn't matter who is wrong, please stop discussing that. What matters is that code gets written, tested, improved, and eventually committed that improves the situation. > protecting a bl

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Leonid Bobrov
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:25:21PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:56:18 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 06:39:01PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:13:44 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 0

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:20:20PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 00:46:33 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:09:08PM +, Roderick wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > > > > > Nope, you misund

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread lists
Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:56:18 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 06:39:01PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:13:44 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:20:20PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > > > Mon, 1 Jul 2019

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 06:39:01PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:13:44 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:20:20PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 00:46:33 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 3

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread lists
Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:13:44 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:20:20PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > > Mon, 1 Jul 2019 00:46:33 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > > > > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:09:08PM +, Roderick wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 30 Ju

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread lists
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:09:41 +0300 cho...@jtan.com > > I don't think I'll be relying on software from such confused individuals any > time soon. Since when? Make a note: your long lines will never fit on a punch card. > Matthew >

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread chohag
li...@wrant.com writes: > You can't do without YOU understanding basics of X11, do something else.. > Juan, I don't trust your lack of any qualification for even feature bait. Two dots? This thing should never have more than one dot. How about: > You can't do without YOUR understanding X11 basic

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread lists
Mon, 1 Jul 2019 02:22:02 +0300 Leonid Bobrov > I make a mistake by writting this mail, but: > > X Window System is just a shit windowing system while Wayland is a simple, > fast and secure display server protocol. > (Well, almost simple, this XML dependance is overkill.) > > You people protectin

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-01 Thread lists
Mon, 1 Jul 2019 00:46:33 +0200 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:09:08PM +, Roderick wrote: > > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > > > Nope, you misunderstood the text. > > > > No. It is *you* that do not understand what X11 is

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Roderick
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: Xorg is the most insecure software in base. Why? Because it has bugs? Or because, in oppossite to wayland, it can listen to outside connections if configured so (by default it does not)? If you only care about the remote apps, with

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread chohag
Roderick writes: > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > You can run (local or remote) X11 applications inside of a Wayland > > compositor. > > The following contradicts your above assertion: > > https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8 Wayland. The

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:09:08PM +, Roderick wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > Nope, you misunderstood the text. > > No. It is *you* that do not understand what X11 is and want it death. > A very destructive attitude. You're the only one with a de

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Leonid Bobrov
I make a mistake by writting this mail, but: On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:09:08PM +, Roderick wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > Nope, you misunderstood the text. > > No. It is *you* that do not understand what X11 is and want it death. > A very destru

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: Nope, you misunderstood the text. No. It is *you* that do not understand what X11 is and want it death. A very destructive attitude. "This doesn't mean that remote rendering won't be possible with Wayland, it just means that you wi

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 03:59:55PM +, Roderick wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, gwes wrote: > > > I regularly run programs on one machine connected to a display > > on another machine. AFAIK, the current state of Wayland makes > > that difficult. I confess to not following it closely. > >

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 06:55:42PM +, Roderick wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > You can run (local or remote) X11 applications inside of a Wayland > > compositor. > > The following contradicts your above assertion: > > https://wayland.freedeskto

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: You can run (local or remote) X11 applications inside of a Wayland compositor. The following contradicts your above assertion: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8 Rod.

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-30 Thread Roderick
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, gwes wrote: I regularly run programs on one machine connected to a display on another machine. AFAIK, the current state of Wayland makes that difficult. I confess to not following it closely. I also do it, and I also have no much idea of what is wayland. But I have the

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-29 Thread Leonid Bobrov
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:29:40PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Leonid Bobrov [mazoc...@disroot.org] wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:56:43PM -0400, Christopher Turkel wrote: > > > > First, I'd like to blame Xenocara for this pain porting Wayland to > > OpenBSD (because building Mesa from

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-29 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Leonid Bobrov [mazoc...@disroot.org] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:56:43PM -0400, Christopher Turkel wrote: > > First, I'd like to blame Xenocara for this pain porting Wayland to > OpenBSD (because building Mesa from ports would be an opportunity), > right now to build Mesa with Wayland supp

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-29 Thread Christopher Turkel
If you want an idea when X11 will die, watch Debian Linux. When they drop it, you know the end is coming. Right now, they do not even default to Wayland. On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 3:25 PM Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado < i...@juanfra.info> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 05:06:49PM -0400, gwes wro

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-29 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 05:06:49PM -0400, gwes wrote: > > > On 6/28/19 1:56 PM, Christopher Turkel wrote: > > Probably someday. X won’t be going away anytime soon. > > > > On Friday, June 28, 2019, Nathan Hartman wrote: > > > > > Came across this: > > > > > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-28 Thread gwes
On 6/28/19 1:56 PM, Christopher Turkel wrote: Probably someday. X won’t be going away anytime soon. On Friday, June 28, 2019, Nathan Hartman wrote: Came across this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org- Maintenance-Mode-Quickly Long story short, Red Hat hopes to swi

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-28 Thread Leonid Bobrov
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:56:43PM -0400, Christopher Turkel wrote: > Probably someday. X won’t be going away anytime soon. > > On Friday, June 28, 2019, Nathan Hartman wrote: > > > Came across this: > > > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org- > > Maintenance-Mode-Quickly

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-06-28 Thread Christopher Turkel
Probably someday. X won’t be going away anytime soon. On Friday, June 28, 2019, Nathan Hartman wrote: > Came across this: > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org- > Maintenance-Mode-Quickly > > Long story short, Red Hat hopes to switch from X.Org to Wayland and > expects X.

Future of X.org?

2019-06-28 Thread Nathan Hartman
Came across this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Maintenance-Mode-Quickly Long story short, Red Hat hopes to switch from X.Org to Wayland and expects X.Org to go into "hard maintenance mode" after that. Relevant to OpenBSD?