Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "" video.

  1. 10:49 Games can run quite fast on X11, by making use of modern extensions such as XRender and shared memory sections. The legacy baggage doesn’t need to slow things down if you don’t use it.
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  2. 10:07 X clients are the apps, running on the main machine in (at that time) the computer room. The X terminal on the user’s desk ran the X server.
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  3. 0:56 I notice that you have the window manager by the side of the display server. Really it belongs in the graphical interface level, as another client of the display server.
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  4. There is a reference Wayland implementation called “Weston”.
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  5.  @CyberGizmo  No, the terminology is basic to the architecture. The display is the server, the GUI apps are the clients. It doesn’t work if you flip it around.
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