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Re:X11 Library Sees Lots of Fixes with LibX11 1.7 Release by ptx on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:39AM (#25176681)
Sounds like the beauty of a lump of rock - any sculpture you can imagine could potentially "just simply" be carved from it.

To replace X11, then, we would need something more than Wayland: a design (as a spec or as a concrete component) for how all these parts that were left out are supposed to work.

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Re:X11 Library Sees Lots of Fixes with LibX11 1.7 Release by kaba0 on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:08AM (#25188218)
Well, yes. Wayland is a display protocol and it does its work splendidly. X11 does a lot more than display management, and those things should not be put into the display manager yet again as it is a mistake.
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