X Window System Basics

Re:X Window System Basics by badsectoracula on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:29PM (#34330206)

I don't think that is the case. Pretty much all distros have an X server available. A few distros install some desktop environment out of the box and some of those use a desktop environment that uses a Wayland compositor instead of an X server using the kernel graphics APIs, but even in those environments there is an X server (XWayland) right above the compositor (technically you can have a Wayland setup without XWayland but that'd just make the desktop less useful so i don't think there is any distro doing that by default - though even if there is, i don't think it'd be majority).

But TBH i think most distros either use X server based environments or do not provide a default OOTB environment at all.

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Re:X Window System Basics by johnny22 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:30PM (#34332462)

i never said they don't have an x server available. They all do. All of the general purpose ones that provide wayland sessions still provide an x11 fallback session where both are possible, and of course for those DE/WM where wayland based solutions don't exist.

RHEL has deprecated xorg-server and will provide support for those x11 DE/WM via rootful xwayland sessions.

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Re:X Window System Basics by hulitu on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:30AM (#34336022)

> RHEL has deprecated xorg-server and will provide support for those x11 DE/WM via rootful xwayland sessions.

RHEL also bring us: systemd, dbus, pulseaudio, GNOME 3 etc.

I think is it safe to consider now that everything they do is hostile for linux and stay away as much as possible from their "technology".

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Re:X Window System Basics by QUrprUd1nCeicw on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:23PM (#34347221)

Can you please knock off the conspiracy theories? Maybe consider how those things could actually be useful to people who don't use Red Hat?

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