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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by badsectoracula on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:32PM (#24892331)
> 1. The old, mostly working thing waits your commit

From what i understand there are commits, just not releases. What is the point of committing if the maintainers do not bother to make a proper release that your work can be distributed to the users?

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by sergeykish on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:08AM (#24893232)
Do you imply X.Org sabotaged? Issues fixed, system is stable and only maintainer stops it? You should notify disillusioned people who still commit to the repo [1].

[1] https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xserver/graphs/commit-ac...

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by badsectoracula on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:47PM (#24899661)
I do not imply anything. The fact is that there haven't been any release for two years yet there is work apparently being done.

So why aren't release being made?

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by sergeykish on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:46PM (#24900469)
I would expect issues are not fixed, system is not stable.

> The primary development code repository can be found at:

> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

Quite a lot of issues.

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by account42 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:48AM (#24907372)
Ah yes, such classic X11 issues as Google Sign in not working [0]. Everyone knows that only Wayland is webscale enough for Google.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1092

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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by sergeykish on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:48AM (#24908559)
Quick glance shows real issues

> Xorg xserver above 1.20.8-3 crashes when using displaylink/evdi

> Applications do not repaint in a timely fashion, resulting in screen corruption

> xorg-x11-server quit unexpectedly on windows resize

> x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1 crashes

> Xorg crashes after unlocking with lightdm

> Input events can be sent for disabled device, crashing GTK and mutter

> when ubuntu runing Virtualbox, Ctal+Alt+F1 Ctal+Alt+F17 switch cause memleak

> Server crash at startup

> Delay and black screen when the screen is rotated.

> xorg-server-1.20.9 crash on startup

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