[HN Gopher] How to configure X11 in a simple way
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How to configure X11 in a simple way
Author : speckx
Score : 35 points
Date : 2025-07-25 17:02 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| davydm wrote:
| cool if you want to stay with 30-year-old desktops like fluxbox,
| but I'm not about to give up my KDE when I have plenty of ram to
| spare - the plasmoids for system monitoring alone are simple to
| set up and useful. Yes, I know there are standalone alternatives.
| Some things (imo) aren't worth optimising.
|
| But to each their own - I'm sure someone will be all into
| "debloating" like the author.
| gen2brain wrote:
| I do not give up on my openbox. I use it with LxQt. Now there
| is a Labwc, similar to openbox. It uses its XML spec for config
| and is similar. But I am still on X until all issues are
| resolved. Can I use openbox on KDE now? It used to be possible,
| I can choose WM in LxQt. Back then every WM had a --replace
| option.
| hulitu wrote:
| > cool if you want to stay with 30-year-old desktops like
| fluxbox, but I'm not about to give up my KDE when I have plenty
| of ram to spare
|
| KDE is slow. Fvwm is much faster.
| Zardoz84 wrote:
| What drug do you take ?
| shmerl wrote:
| Creating custom modelines is far from fun activity, bloat or no
| bloat.
|
| The last time I had to look into that was to work around amdgpu
| bug that affected screen blinking in KDE Wayland session.
| whalesalad wrote:
| "in a simple way" proceeds to write a 300 page epic
| doublerabbit wrote:
| I would call a 300 page epic simple.
|
| 300 pages on explaining things X. I wouldn't say that's bad.
| Could always be longer.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| At least I was able to keep it under 300 pages.
|
| https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-
| disaster-128d398...
| xyzelement wrote:
| Omg I literally stumbled upon the unix haters handbook off
| an old JWZ blog last night and was reading it till 2 in the
| morning. Thank you!
| jcranmer wrote:
| ... somehow this is the first time I've realized that you
| contributed to the Unix Haters Handbook.
|
| (And I've read it in its entirety at least twice!)
| exiguus wrote:
| I also aspect a 1000 Word article and stopped reading after the
| TOC.
| cbondurant wrote:
| > For lightweight WMs there are lightweigh compositors exists.
|
| I think that if you're going to take a holier-than-thou, software
| purity and perfection stance. You probably should make sure to
| proofread.
|
| If you're gonna be judgemental about other peoples stances and
| refuse to admit to the existence of such a thing as a "reasonable
| tradeoff". Talk down to your audience with section headers titled
| "Compositor (no, not that thing from Wayland)". Maybe make sure
| what you've written is actually correct.
| gen2brain wrote:
| Does FreeBSD even support Wayland? I heard that there is some
| work.
| eikenberry wrote:
| Yes, they have official docs on how to set it up and use it.
|
| https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/
|
| Here's a 3 year old article going through their
| freebsd/wayland setup, so it seems like it's been supported
| for a while now.
|
| https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/example-tutorial-pure-
| way...
| anonymousiam wrote:
| How much of this wonderful legacy configurability is supported by
| Wayback (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-0.1-Released), so
| that we can still do this stuff as Wayland replaces X11?
| encom wrote:
| I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago, when we edited
| ~~x11~~ xorg config files by hand. I will gladly pay any price in
| bloat to never have to touch that nonsense again.
| tonyarkles wrote:
| And the perpetual underlying vague threat "if you get your
| modelines wrong you could destroy your monitor". I suppose I
| started with XFree86 and switched to xorg whenever Gentoo did.
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