Question about the future of Xorg

[Carsten Haitzler]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:02:43 +0200 Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa at piap.pl> said:

> Hi,
> 
> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, there are some of us who can't move to Wayland.  In my case FVWM is not
> > able to work with Wayland and FVWM2 is my Window Manager of choice.  I don't
> > know if *I* want to do something like take over Xorg all on my own.
> 
> In my case it's the lack of virtual screens in Wayland
> (xrandr --panning):
> 
> $ xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 12000 x 2800, maximum 16384 x 16384
> DisplayPort-0 connected primary 12000x2800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x
> axis y axis) 600mm x 340mm panning 12000x2800+0+0 3840x2160     60.00*+  30.00
> 
> :-)
> 
> Perhaps I could help? Just don't know where to start, but it doesn't
> look like a big enterprise.
> 
> There was a period in Xfree86 history when it stopped supporting panning
> (for a couple of years maybe), and it was a hard experience.

that's not a wayland thing. wayland is just a protocol plus associated
tooling and libraries to speak that protocol. panning is a compositor thing.

if you wanted a compositor to support this then add it to that compositor. as
there is no single compositor in the wayland universe, you'd have to make a
choice. you could also build your own compositor.

-- 
------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
Carsten Haitzler - raster at rasterman.com