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[Documentation / FAQ] Could the use cases and use of xserver be explained in more practical detail?
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I just found this project today, I think it was on hackernews or slashdot, as a link. Anyway.
Right now I run xorg-server. The KDE team already decreed that it will abandoned xorg in a bit over a year; everyone then must use wayland (and then systemd too, as Dave Edmondson already announced with Nate, the latter becoming famous for adding the Robin Hood pester donation daemon to KDE recently). Now, I actually already tested wayland - it does work to some extent for my use case, but I have to change a lot to make it work, many things that I used to be able to do, don't work or don't have a replacement. After 17 years I also don't trust the wayland devs (wayland was started in 2008, that's a LONG time ago now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)) - they babble a lot but deliver poorly, at best, or just are corporate hackers like the GNOME/GTK devs anyway, so I want to have the option and retain xorg. This brings me to my question here.
The current xserver main README has useful information so this is good. But specifically I wonder whether I can run both xorg and xserver. Right now I start iceWM via init runlevel 3 and simple "startx". That works.
I would like to know what specifically would have to be done, to start xserver there. Is it Xinit or Xorg that runs as binary? It would be nice if the FAQ could have a subsection that shows which commands have to be used for people who use oldschool xorg-server but would want to try out xserver here; and, also, troubleshooting there. This may be easy for more advanced folks, but I never tried xserver so far, and I am super-reluctant to work through problems. I kind of ideally want a simply, copy-pasteable instruction set that also works. Could perhaps a new entry be added to a FAQ? Or perhaps a FAQ be added actually? I think this may be helpful for more users who want to try to switch but are scared to run into problems and then be unable to resolve them on their own. Searching via google these days sucks in general, so finding help once stuck can be difficult, which is why I think having more useful information at xserver here, the repository that is, would be super-useful. Thanks for reading!
