[hedora]

Traditionally, X11 didn’t have compositors, and didn’t need the extra round trip wayland exists to remove.

I wonder if there’s space for a project like xlibre (or x.org, if it were revived) to update the x11 protocol to fill whatever gap compositors were meant to fill.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been moving all my machines to lxde.

Apparently, I accidentally switched back to a compositor free desktop without noticing. High framerate, vsync/tear-free and high dpi work fine. So does fractional scaling, but I disable it.

Personally, I’d rather these hypothetical x11 devs focused on reverse engineering hdmi vrr (blocked by lawyers at the moment), and HDR / expanded color spaces.

[baobun]

> For what it’s worth, I’ve been moving all my machines to lxde.

Any gotchas or regrets?

Haven't used it in many years and now considering going all in on making it (scaffolding of) next DE. So looking at the same move.

[em-bee]

you are looking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz

note that compiz is also a windowmanager, so already then compositor and window manager were one unit.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

The compositor and window manager could be one unit. But you can also just slap picom on with any other window manager and that's fine.

[hedora]

I guess this kind misses the point. I was an early compiz user (wobbly windows, fire effect and all), but, at this point I just don’t miss it (literally: I thought I was running a compositor for the last ~5 years, and just… wasn’t.)

The X windows paradigm was fine, and still works great with modern hardware.