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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (git.dec05eba.com)

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[–] badmin@lemmy.today -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Give me a compositor with at least some of the capabilities of Awesome, AND the ability to apply custom shaders to windows like picom does, and some none alpha-quality VNC solutions, then I make seriously consider a permanent move.

So it's going to be X11 for at least 2-3 years to come for me. And this is based purely on practical and workflow reasoning. It's is also a logical, technical, and fully informed choice, unlike the entirety of your comment.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Give me a compositor with at least some of the capabilities of Awesome

KDE Plasma.

and some none alpha-quality VNC solutions

The one from KDE.

And before you call me uninformed, please explain to me why per-window custom shaders are a necessity (i.e. overwhelmingly useful and irreplacable) for anyone. And furthermore, what anything you said has to do with me questioning the necessity of not maintaining, but reimplementing X.

I never said anything about Awesome or any X WM, I didn't even say anything about people sticking with an X environment. I commented on a post about a new X implementation, because I wondered why people go out of their way to keep X around, after its own maintainers declared it abandonware.