Re:Wayland on OpenBSD
by justinclift on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:01AM
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> ... if it was ever a real problem in the first place.
It definitely used to be a huge pain in the arse. There used to be pages after pages after pages of random "HOW TO ..." style guides for people to configure X11 config files around the net (many just working for specific hw).
It was an incredible mess, with pretty much nothing positive about it. ;)
Re:Wayland on OpenBSD
by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:41AM
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I've been using Linux for 20 years now and I've never needed more than 5 lines of Xorg config, only a couple lines of which has had meaningful information.
I've been using Linux since Slackware 3.0; at the time, there were X servers that were specific to a certain card manufacturers/chipsets and you symlinked the correct one. Then you configured xf86config.
Re:Wayland on OpenBSD
by justinclift on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:52AM
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Maybe I was just one of the many er... unlucky ones then. ;)
Re:Wayland on OpenBSD
by MattPalmer1086 on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:16AM
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It was definitely a real problem. Things would work for a while and then break. Sometimes you had to choose between one thing that worked and another. I spent many unhappy hours tweaking X config.
But it was indeed around 20 years ago that it was an issue.
It's at least 2 decades old, if it was ever a real problem in the first place.