Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by csande17 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:06AM
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Desktop environments on Linux basically just draw into a full-screen X window, don't they? (And then the programs you run are children of that root window.) I wonder how hard it would be to hack up XQuartz to support that...
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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by duskwuff on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:16AM
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You wouldn't even have to hack it up. There's an option in XQuartz to make it run full-screen, at which point you can run a standard X11 DE.
The main issue with XQuartz nowadays is that it doesn't support Retina displays in windowed mode. Everything runs pixel-doubled by default.
Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
by aodaki on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:41AM
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I haven't tried XQuartz at all because I didn't think that kind of software has plenty of resource and is well maintained. Retina support is just one problem caused by lack of maintenance.
There are only two options: hack Virgil 3D or hack XQuartz. You cannot "just" run XQuartz and solve problems. And I choose hacking Virgil 3D because it should have less communication overhead and work with Wayland.