Re: Low resolution with XQuartz on retina display (and other questions)
Re: Low resolution with XQuartz on retina display (and other questions)
- Subject: Re: Low resolution with XQuartz on retina display (and other questions)
- From: René J.V. Bertin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:33:15 +0200
On Thursday October 13 2016 00:25:13 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>Because Wayland is the spiritual successor of X11, with many X11 and former X11 developers being the primary contributors to the project, and implementing Wayland for macOS would allow one to use that in conjunction with xwayland to effectively replace the functionality of XQuartz.
Seen like that, yes. But then you'd end up running 2 display servers, XQuartz -> QuartzaWayland+xwayland.
>There's not really a point of having "an X11-based reference implementation".
Provide a way for Wayland apps (and thus developers) to function on systems that don't have a fullblown/native Wayland implementation?
I'm not really following this but I got the impression that the protocol specs have been preceding the server implementations (of which there seem to be several at least, including apparently KDE's KWin5 ...)
It's possible I have misunderstood what I read about Weston (it doesn't help I saw Burn Notice before ;) ).
>I think you missed https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
As I said, I'm not really following this, partly because everytime I do look I get the impression things are still very much in flux.
Not only does X11 do the job for me at the moment *), I'm also not yet ready to give up being able to connect remotely. Somehow the idea doesn't feel right (yet) of having to run the equivalent of XQuartz on a Linux/Unix workstation.
If Wayland itself is scheduled to support remote displaying then that would make a big difference, esp. if somehow the Mac implementation could support remote OpenGL through the OpenGL and AGL frameworks. I've been tinkering with Qt5's xcb plugin on Mac; locally it works fine regardless of whether you link it to the X11 OpenGL libraries or the frameworks, though I do get an error of a GL context not being released in recent Qt versions (even on local connections).
*) The only thing I've always really missed is a possibility to redirect an application from one display to another. If something else can provide that and full X11 compatibility I'll be over before I know it :)
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