| Casey Bralla on 18 Apr 2014 09:13:24 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] two window managers |
On Friday 2014-04-18 10:08:09 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Carl Johnson > > > A lot of X11 makes more sense if you understand the history behind it all. > That would make it an infinite percentage increase in my understanding of X (from zero, any increase is infinite! <grin>) > That makes me wonder if a fundamentals of X11 talk might be useful at > PLUG. Sort of a ditch Gnome/etc and start from the ground up sort of > thing. Understanding DISPLAY, xauth, the client/server model, the > typical major clients like display managers, session managers, > launchers, etc, maybe even things like geometry/xrandr/drm/etc. > Rich, I'd love to see such a presentation. I consider myself reasonably savvy about computers and X, but there is so much evolutionary garbage left in X, it is all but incomprehensible. I hope the guys working on Wayland can come up with something great. -- Casey Bralla Chief Nerd in Residence The NerdWorld Organisation www.NerdWorld.org ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug