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Re:XFCE 4.20 Aims to Bring Preliminary Wayland Support by kelnos on Monday October 07, 2024 @12:15AM (#41762743)
Pretty much any app that uses a toolkit won't need to be rewritten. Most of them just need small changes, or even no changes.

Those that are written to use Xlib directly, sure, they'll take some work (though rewritten? doubtful). If their maintainers don't want to do that, they'll still run under Xwayland.

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Re:XFCE 4.20 Aims to Bring Preliminary Wayland Support by mkgreen on Monday October 07, 2024 @04:01AM (#41763743)
These apps were written for X11 and NFS, so they can run on any node in a cluster. The were typically deployed on commercial UNIX systems and ported to Linux when Sun went belly up. In practice, I don't think porting them again will be needed. It is enough to qualify a different distribution if Redhat chose to exit the workstation market. There are already companies like NoMachine that keep X11 running.

It is not even about the access (people usually use nx or even vnc for that). It is about having a system that can work as a part of a cluster (network filesystem, X11), with all base GUI utilities (terminals, file managers, browsers, pdf viewers) supporting that.

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