(Disclaimer: Just an XWayland user, so I might be totally wrong)
Am 01.12.20 um 10:58 schrieb Fabio Valentini:
I assume there are also at least *some* improvements (other than
XWayland improvements) in the xserver repo that are not released yet?
I think one example could be:
xwayland: Add EGL-backed GLX provider
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/195
which fixes:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98272
Basically this fixes some well-known (sort of) Steam games from "Paradox
Interactive" to launch when using a wayland desktop session. Right now users
have to resort to X.org to play these games on Linux.
These fixes were merged in May 2019 with some follow-up fix in December 2019 but
only in master so it is quite difficult for users to benefit from these.
Could we at least get one final, last, xserver release, maybe even
with XWayland split out as a separate component upstream?
As far as I know nobody is really keen on spending time on xserver releases:
Adam Jackson (@ajax): "on abandoning the X server"
https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
Also Daniel Vetter (Intel) is on record that the xserver might be considered
"abandonware".
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/533#note_670522
If I am reading Adam's comments correctly we would need some kind of release
manager who herds all the cats and publishes a release. It's kind of sad that
there is still Xorg development even though users do not benefit as there are no
release being made.
Felix
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