Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 05:46:48 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

They will be updated, don’t worry. Wayland is just a low-level engine
for managing drawing on the screen from multiple client applications,
nothing more. It doesn’t dictate any kind of GUI style or toolkit or
whatever. X11 was sort of the same, but Wayland is even more minimalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Toolkit_Intrinsics

There's a nice graphic showing the relationships in the X Window System.
We worked with Motif and the documentation consists of 6 rather thick
books. Most of the GUI work could be done with the Motif library (Xm) but
somehow you always wound up punching down into Xt and XLib for stuff like
XtSetSensitive() or handling events.

One of the selling points / drawbacks of Wayland is the windows are
sandboxed. With X you had access to the X Server itself and not much limit
to what evil you could get up to. Drag and drop, for example, was done in
X rather than the DE.