Hopefully Debian + XFCE will keep X around for a while more.
There's still a lot of core features in X (including but not limited to absolute window positioning) that simply do not exist in wayland, and for political reasons seem unlikely to be implemented any time in the future despite being technically achievable.
Andrew Zonenberg
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2025-06-19 18:40:04 GMT
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