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 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 <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> > 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.Org to go into "hard maintenance mode" after that. > > > > > > > > Relevant to OpenBSD? > > > > > > 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. > > > > Implementing something as huge as Wayland in the kernel.... > > mega-bloat. As a tightly coupled server process, maybe. > > Sorta like X with a very different interface. > > We have the "mega-bloat" implemented in the kernel. It's the KMS/DRM thing. > The compositor is a userland program. > > The missing parts are not so big but nobody is working on that. > > > > > It also seems to assume a heavyweight desktop suite > > to implement common X features.... Mega-bloat. > > https://swaywm.org/ <- an i3 inspired wayland compositor > > > > > If I'm wrong, please point out sources. > > Otherwise for my usage it's not nearly ready and > > requires some complex porting/additional programs. > > I dont' know why people are so sad. X11 should have died long time ago. > Xorg is just a big keylogger and will never be secure. KMS bought some > of time for Xorg but it should be die for good. > > > -- > Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info > >
