Question about the future of Xorg

Vladimir Dergachev volodya at mindspring.com
Wed Jun 11 15:06:54 UTC 2025



On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>>
>> The only misinformation I see comes from Wayland advocates.
>
> well "the lack of virtual screens in wayland" earlier on in this thread was
> the newest one i can think of here. that is a complete falsity - wayland isn't
> even responsible for this.

Maybe I am missing something here, but I thought virtual screens in X were 
implemented by having a large framebuffer, in GPU memory and having CRTC 
send a subset of it to the monitor.

So this is done very close to the hardware, and if Wayland does not do 
that who does?

best

Vladimir Dergachev


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