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> What about the fact that X.org itself is ... falling apart

Works for me, and has for literal decades.

> ...without active maintenance...

This update to xorg-server was stabilized on April 14th, and it looks like library changes required me to rebuild and reinstall it like two days ago:

  $ eix -I xorg-server
  [I] x11-base/xorg-server
       Available versions:  21.1.13(0/21.1.13)^t **9999(0/9999)*l^t {debug +elogind minimal selinux suid systemd test +udev unwind xcsecurity xephyr xnest xorg xvfb}
       Installed versions:  21.1.13(0/21.1.13)^t(03:15:55 PM 05/03/2024)(elogind udev xorg -debug -minimal -selinux -suid -systemd -test -unwind -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb)
       Homepage:            https://www.x.org/wiki/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg-server
       Description:         X.Org X servers
> ...and governance the writing is on the wall for X.org.

Weird. Looks like they're running Board of Directors elections. [0]

[0] <https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-March/thread.ht...>



> Weird. Looks like they're running Board of Directors elections. [0]

Just so you know: The X.Org Foundation also oversees Wayland.


There's X.org the software and X.org the foundation.

X.org the foundation is electing a board of directors. They're also all-in on Wayland.


And regularly releasing new x server versions. It seems like there's a new release every couple of months.

For example, in January this year, xrandr got code to allow for multiple virtual monitors on a physical display. In April, there were 2 bugfix releases.


Yep.

If they were all-in on Wayland, they wouldn't be making regular xorg-server releases, and definitely wouldn't be adding new features to xorg components. (Because, yanno, they wouldn't have any staff available to do those things.)




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