Question about the future of Xorg

J Leslie Turriff jlturriff at mail.com
Fri Jun 13 20:34:26 UTC 2025


On 2025-06-13 10:41:54 Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> > this is why you can have many wayland compositors. they can compete and
> > address different userbases and "markets". :)
>
> Except that the compositor would need to implement toys like Neko, tools
> like xmag/kmag, and teleconferencing client as well.
>
> And where before you can run KDE, but also use some Gnome apps and plain X
> apps, now you got to choose - one compositor has better teleconferencing
> and the other has better magnification, and another better effects and so
> on.

	It seems to me like this makes a good case for compositor standardization, 
i.e. the compositor maintaners in the various desktop groups should 
collaborate to come up with a uniform set of features, or perhaps work on 
a "global" compositor to be used by all.

Leslie
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