[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[motk]

On 21/04/2024 1:00 am, chrisq wrote:

> Perhaps a poor choice of words, but are there any desktop / GUI systems,
> other than windows, that do not depend on X11 ?. The point was that it
> is a standard, and not optional. Can't remember if the old Motif based
> CDE used X11 libs or not, but that's long gone anyway. VWS, ditto...

Literally ... all of them? GNOME, KDE, none of them require X11 for 
anything, and they all work perfectly fine. Xwayalnd exists and is 
actively maintained so you can still use X11 and not notice anything. 
You will get the occasional wrinkle (copy/paste finagling) but it's my 
daily drive now. The people who actually do the coding, xfree86/xorg 
people, are now making enormous strides in a post-x11 world. People are 
even writing entire desktop environments in rust now, which is exciting.

If you're looking for standards, it's now wayland/xdg-portal/dbus.

It really is worth doing the research here and seeing what modern best 
practice is. Ignore phoronix commenters of course.

-- 
motk