US EditionWayback 0.1 Debuts as Early Wayland Server for X11 Diehards
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You'd like to be able to turn your favorite old windows managers X11 on modern Wayland. Impossible ??? That's what I was thinking before I discovered Wayback! For those who don't follow too much Linux news, we're currently in the middle of a transition between X11 (the old display system that dates back to 1987) and Wayland (the new one that's supposed to revolutionize everything). The problem is that it's been 35 years since we've been developi…
Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer
Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella. Today marks the release of Wayback 0.1 as the first preview release for this X11 compatibility layer...
Wayback 0.1 released – OSnews
Wayback, the recently announced tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, has just announced its first release, version 0.1. As the version number implies, there be dragons here, but the developers state some of them already use Wayback on a day-to-day basis. Still, there’s no multi-monitor support yet, quite a few X.org options are just stubs for now, there’s no mouse-locking, and so on. Since the initi…
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