I’ve never been too fond of Wayland, with it’s corporate sponsors and project architecture that threatens to kill-off smaller desktops and window managers: hurting one of *NIX’s best qualities IMO, it’s fragmentation and user-choice.

So, when I heard about the X11 revival effort, XLibre, and read that they had a mostly stable release, I switched over.

It’s been a drop-in replacement, my package manager (pacman) prompted me that xorg-xserver and xlibre-xserver would be in-conflict, and thus automatically removed xorg-* in favour of xlibre-*. Everything else has just worked.

Immediately off-the-bat XLibre has TearFree enabled by default, which improves the feel of the desktop massively. But that’s about the only change I can “feel”, a lot of the work is under-the-hood with code-cleanup efforts and refactoring.

System Details:

  • OS: CachyOS
  • Kernel: Linux 7.0.3-1-cachyos
  • CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-8665U (8) @ 4.80 GHz
  • Memory: 32GB
  • WM: Xfwm4 (XLibre)
  • WM Theme: Mojave-Dark-solid-alt
  • Theme: Mojave-Dark-solid-alt [GTK2/3/4]
  • Icons: Mojave-CT [GTK2/3/4]
  • majster@lemmy.zip
    3·
    7 days ago

    Looks nice. Does it do better mixed dpi? I recently had to abandon XFCE because of my 1080p laptop and 4k monitor. I found rendering on monitor a bit blurry. I found my place with labwc in the end.

    • bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      11·
      7 days ago

      I have the same situation, no, unfortunately there hasn’t been any improvement with mixed DPI or fractional scaling yet, though I believe that is something that will be considered once the codebase has been adequately modernised.

      I spend most of my day away from my desk so it’s not a blocking issue for me, I just use my laptop standalone at my desk, might consider swapping my 4K monitor for a 1080p one from my work.