Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre!
I've played with Wayland on an admittedly less than ideal platform, and was not impressed. Promise? Its got that in spades, but it still falls short, I agree with the author that the only thing that matters is that it works. I think the Xlibre project is definitely a good idea, basically X without all the cruft. I do wonder how this is going to impact Linux Mint, since apparently Canonical is going all in on WayLand.
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Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre!
Article introducing Xlibre xserver, a fork of the Xorg project created due to severe functional problems with the Wayland display protocol, including reasoning behind the fork, numerous unresolved issues and missing use cases in Wayland, forced adoptβ¦www.dedoimedo.com
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Gotta love dumb problems with easy solutions...
So, just picked me up a new used LG Ultra wide monitor, got it set up and...
1920X1080 maximum available resolution. Yeah, that's a problem, the native resolution is 2560X1080 and that's why I bought it. Sure, size is wrong in the preferences, 34in, but the 29in LG ultra wide has always done that.
So, we go searching for an answer and on one thread, the question of cable quality comes up along with some ways to determine port, mode and things like that. Notably, despite it having an HDMI input, it shows my computer is using Display port. Hmm, that means I'm using one of my old Amazon Basics DP to HDMI cables, I wonder...
The computer has both HDMI and DP output, at one time I'd had two monitors connected, and I guess I just kept using the DP for no particular reason, switch to HDMI, and Bob's your uncle.
Yay, now I have...
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OS misadventures
Yep, still trying to find something what runs good on the craptop, and it's not going swimmingly.
I've tried various Linuxes... Linii? to no avail, so I decided to try something new...
FydeOS? Basically a fork of ChromiumOS, yes, Chromium, not Chrome, but basically the same thing. How do you use this thing? I got it up and working, but I can't wrap my brain about the computer is the browser... or is that the browser is the computer?
So, next up, Haiku. Whaz Haiku? An operating system inspired by BeOS from the 90s. Ehhhh, not sold on it, but it has potential so let's install it... Ummm, the installer can't see my HD... well, EMMC, haven't had that happen in a while.
Well Ok then, let's go back to Linux with Rhino Linux, been a bunch of chatter about this one. Launch the live installer, and... the tray is missing. No clock, date, access to the WiFi, etc, but glitches sometimes happen with live environments, so we'll install it and see how it goes, because this is a real nice looking OS... And same problem. Yeah, that's kinda a deal breaker.
Up next, after I finish writing? TinyLinux, we'll see how this goes, can't say my expectations are particularly high at this point though.
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in reply to antarticfire • •IA? I will say installs are always a problem on this, from unrecognised drive to installs that don't work when I reboot. I'll prolly use a different live environment so I can go in and erase the hard drive, then try again, that often works