Interesting #xorg #xserver #userspace #hack left in the #linux #kernel because of #popular #broken #code https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-.. It means that all #programs that start with the letter 'X' are run completely differently from other #software . Potentially could have been used for #malware or something!
Really cool #xserver #windowmanager named #tinywm http://incise.org/tinywm.html In the future I think I will want to take another crack at writing my own #windowmanager , #oakwm was a good attempt, but I think wm2 brings some #baggage along with it. I believe we can do better.
Apparently the #gtk #gui #framework is dropping #support for #xserver in favour of #wayland https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n.. This is a #reminder that many great #alternatives exit, including #dearimgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and #fltk https://www.fltk.org/
Okay, so I have been following #jwz for years - I had zero idea he was a #founder of #mozilla https://mobile.twitter.com/jwz/status/14.. I just know him from his #xserver #research ! Anyway, this comes as the #mozilla #foundation have begun excepting #crypto #payments - which he correctly identifies as the planet destroying waste of time it is: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/m..
Some nice #tools for #xserver http://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/ The #hackernews #comments also suggest some other nice ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296..