Post by @soller@floss.social

2025-05-10 02:05 UTC

I have ported X11 to Redox OS in order to start working on ports that have previously been too difficult. In the future, we will be rebuilding these with wayland. Here is TWM with gtk3-demo open on the left, the embedded GL example on the right, and xterm behind. This all runs inside orbital using a custom X server video driver.

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@christophbegall@toot.kif.rocks 2025-05-10 04:52

@soller@floss.social but will orbital be continued?

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@matkeith@techhub.social 2025-05-10 05:18

@soller@floss.social how difficult do you think it will be to port over cosmic? I have been curious what it would take like if you need Mesa or lavapipe etc

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@dngrs@chaos.social 2025-05-10 05:56

@soller@floss.social wow, huge!

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@whynothugo@fosstodon.org 2025-05-10 07:47

@soller@floss.social Cool! It’d be really interesting to have a non-Linux non-BSD target for Wayland apps to better understand portability.

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@matt@toot.cafe 2025-05-10 12:31

@soller@floss.social A bit tangential, but if you or other Redox developers could develop a really reliable audio stack, then get Orca plus some kind of fallback text console screen reader working reliably, blind users who currently fight with desktop Linux might love your OS. See also this blog post from a long-time blind Linux user about the state of desktop Linux accessibility: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/ I'd be willing to help fund work on audio and/or accessibility on Redox.

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