Sujet : Re: why X
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.windows.xDate : 15. May 2024, 01:48:38
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On 15 May 2024 09:37:51 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
XFree86 and later X.org used to include the TinyX servers that stripped
out all but the bare essentials for a small, relatively self-contained,
executable which worked (and still works) with most X software.
So what’s missing? Xrandr? XShm? XFixes? XComposite? XShape? XTest? Xv?
The point is that efforts really haven't been directed at making X
smaller in the recent years up to when the paid developers switched to
Wayland, in fact the opposite has been happening.
What sort of things have they been adding that could be removed?
When an old program just uses Xlib directly ...
You still want to use Xlib rather than XCB?
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