2026-10-22 18:31 UTC
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol oh neat, libX11 was too limiting i assume?
i don't consider it fugly, the wire protocol is quite clean imo (only fugly part to me is the lack of 64bit values, meaning interfaces have to send high and low as two 32bit ints)
the interfaces are very lowlevel and i agree it's a pain by itself; but like vulkan, it makes it easy to build on top, even with vastly different paradigms of implementation
which is why i like it despite the painful current situation of desktop impls
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-10-22 18:35
@navi@social.vlhl.dev oh I'd stick to X11 and forget about Wayland altogether, but trying to do the specific things I want run foul of the half-assed Wayland implementation of the X compatibility layer, it seems. transparent windows specified as borderless are drawn with an ugly very non-transparent border on a Wayland desktop and that's unacceptable