Author: Hendrik Boom Date: To: Devuan ML Subject: Re: [DNG] Information request re: wayland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 02:16:58PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Greetings
>
> My long time mentor in things Linux (described himself as a fossil) is no
> longer with us. (He suggested that I strongly consider using Devuan which I
> now have on one system.)
> He was of the opinion that Wayland - - - whatever its exact function, was
> really not worth running.
> Yet it is being touted as the X11 replacement and is now supposedly capable
> of handling both multi-gpu and multi-monitor setups.
If I recall correctly from way back in the early 90's on actual Unix
systems, X already had a mechanism for handling multiple monitors.
Has that fallen from X becuse of decades of bit-rot?
Don't know about multiple GPUs sending to a single monitor, though.