Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by wincy on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:03AM (#46383419)

I remember Wayland scared me off of Linux when I tried to switch to Ubuntu a few years ago. I couldn’t watch a movie without jiggling my mouse every few minutes. At the time I feel like it was like “yeah that feature doesn’t exist yet” or something. So I switched back to Windows. It looks like there’s workarounds now but I’ve mostly switch to my fantastic M1 MacBook Air at this point.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by QuercusMax on Thursday December 25, 2025 @03:25PM (#46386820)

Wayland still doesn't support screensavers last I checked, which is wild to me. Truly bizarre that such longstanding feature is just absent.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by jml7c5 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @04:42PM (#46387216)

It's a matter of designing and proprosing a protocol for it. X11's screensaver support was also a protocol extension.

There probably hasn't been much interest in it because screens can easily be powered off remotely, which was not the case in 1992.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by igneo676 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @12:59PM (#46403710)

Yeah, most of those real gaps have been solved at this point. I'd encourage you to give it a shot now with Avahi

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