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Author: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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To: aitor, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Announce: Xlibre Xserver 25.1 release
On 30.12.25 18:20, aitor wrote:

Hi,

> As you can see, the difference is quite noticeable in favor of XLibre,
> especially when maximizing windows, where X11 appears much clumsier.


Cool :)

Feel free to upload this to our "liberated screens" discussions
on github.

> However, I must also say that in Xfce I noticed some annoying flickering
> that does not occur in Daedalus. And since the tests were carried out
> with the same version of XLibre, it is very likely that this is due to
> the version of Xfwm, which is perhaps slightly less compatible with XLibre
> than its lower version in Daedalus.


Some more testing would be nice. Feel free to report the issue @github.

> In Openbox, everything works perfectly.


:)

> @Enrico: in Escalibur i had to by-pass the *dh_auto_test* rule of
> debhelper, because it couldn't pass all the tests successfully.
> Although in Daedalus i backported DRM and there was no need to skip the
> tests.


Yes, the test suite isn't very robust yet (we also need to skip some
tests in CI pipeline). Haven't had the time to sort out what's
actually wrong here. That already has been the case on xorg master.

By the way, does Devuan project already offer official Xlibre packages ?


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