On Mon Apr22'24 07:36:16AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > From: Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> > Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:36:16 -0400 > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after > version 40 > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:01:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: > > > > > > > > > I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg > > > > > vulnerabilities as an excuse for dumping the Xorg/X11 system as a > > > > > whole. > > > > > > > > I don't see much value is discussing the validity of those excuses. It > > > > is what it is. They don't want to work on X any more. [ ... ] > > > > > > Xorg is still being maintained and patched, it seems: > > > > Forgot to mention: it's not exactly clear to me what you mean to say > > by /"They" don't want to work on X any more/ > > It has been stated, repeatedly, that the X.org maintainers have no desire to > do any further development on X11, and they are only working on Wayland. > > > > But anyways: Hoping the links are helpful. > > > > > > > > https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-commit/ > > > https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/ > > It's certainly possible that an occasional patch/minor fix gets committed. > But it's been reportedly, repeatedly, that "they" don't want to work on X11 > any more. If you go back to the top of this thread you will find that stated > by more than one person, who's in position to know.
Btw, does all this discussion about F40 dropping support for X11 mean that openbox (the window manager, also behind LXDE) also stop working with F40? Many thanks, Ranjan -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
