Dropping X11 VCL backend

[Chris Sherlock]

On 29 Dec 2020, at 6:43 pm, rene at rene-engelhard.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 29. Dezember 2020 07:13:08 MEZ schrieb Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79 at gmail.com>:
>> Are there any plans afoot to remove it and just
>> go with the Skia backend? 
> 
> Hopefully not,...
> 
>> If not, may I ask the reason? It seems maintenance heavy. 
> 
> Big endian architectures where skis does not work?
> 
> In debian: s390x 
> 
> Regards
> 
> René

Oh! I didn’t know about that… ouch. 

I asked before, but in the X11SalGraphicsImpl::supportOperation(), it seems to be checking to see if the X Server supports XRender. Hopefully I’m reading the code right. If I am reading that right, are there any distributions that ship X11 *without* XRender?

Chris