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Replacement for X

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 15:42

Let's make one.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 15:49

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Window_System

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 15:50

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 16:47

we should just provide uniform access to the framebuffer through a file and let individual programs do whatever they want with it

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 17:36

>>4
Also known as Plan9.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 18:03

>>1
Call it Y.

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 18:07

>>6,2

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-12 18:11

>>7
Hahahaha, oh wow.

Name: Σ 2013-02-12 20:05

Zero?

Name: Anonymous 2013-02-13 2:20

>>4,5
We had this thread.

You can't do direct rendering on Plan 9, so you can forget on doing anything with it that X has also historically sucked at (e.g. graphics acceleration).

That being said, you could probably write a waylandfs that would let you read property files, write control files and mmap in window files for the actual frame data. I doubt anyone would bother to actually use such a thing, though.

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Replacement for X

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