Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by reactordev on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @06:46PM (#46380578)

My rpi dashboards are gonna love it

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by c-hendricks on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:40PM (#46381588)

Anything special about Raspberry Pi's that require X11? Raspberry Pi OS defaults to Wayland nowadays, and there's specific kiosk Wayland compositors like Cage (https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage).

Tho admittedly kiosk-wm (https://github.com/JOT85/kiosk-wm) is much more succinct.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by PunchyHamster on Thursday December 25, 2025 @01:56AM (#46382679)

less RAM and power usage

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by reactordev on Thursday December 25, 2025 @07:02AM (#46383874)

I write dashboards using X11/OpenGL for displaying otel metrics.

GLFW for my window library.

Wayland is overkill.

I would go straight /dev/fb if it meant I could also antialias and make it pretty and didn’t need a cursor.

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