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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