[H-GEN] The State of X

[Nikolai Lusan]

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Greetings all,

I am interested in hearing peoples views on the current state of X.

It seems to me that with all the new render features and specific
accelerations in XFree86 - and the programmers directly calling these
extensions - that the days of X as a remote system are numbered. I use a
number of different Xterminals (all real Xterminal, not LTSP boxen or
similar) in my home environ, none of these terminals run XFree86 and I
am running into more and more situation where running non-local X  apps
on a display without the specific extensions in XFree86 makes things
unusable. Programs like Wine (and hence crossover plugin) and just don't
like my teminals and refuse to run, where as the likes of abi word
simply complain alot and behave in a degraded fashion.

I like use in remote X and am feeling disapointed that I am going to
have to resort to long VGA and PS2 cables to keep my machine away from
me should I wish to do certain things. I don't view all these new
additions to X servers as a good thing,  they seem to me to be limiting
the use of X in general.


</RANT>

Nikolai

:)

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