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. Show 3 replies

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?

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.

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The only HiDPI setting I toggle is Xft.dpi in ~/.Xresources This scales fonts in gtk3, and is used for the scale factor in firefox and Qt apps, and is recognized by most apps using something custom.

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As Xorg is effectively abandoned, these days I run Xlibre[0].

0. https://x11libre.net/

> 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.

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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.

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