X11 Conservancy Project
x11cp.org
x11cp.org
I remember xantfarm, xfishtank, and xmelt / xflip very fondly.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsi...
My university in the 1990's used MIT's Project Athena setup with AFS for file sharing, Zephyr instant messaging, etc.
There was a command named "attach" to mount a really long path like /afs/university/department/servers/students/servername/j/jsmith as /university/jsmith
There was also a command named "add" that would source the .environment file within this dir. This was used to set your PATH variable etc so if you wanted to use specific commercial software the .environment would attach the dir and set some variables.
People were explicitly told not to add a user dir as the .environment in that user's dir would get sourced.
So of course I made a script that kept track of what machine I was logged into. If someone added my account the script would run xhost + opening their machine to remote X11 connections and send me a zephyr message saying "I just xhosted you"
If they were in my actual computer lab I would run xmelt or flip their screen and they would freak out. Then I'd go over and laugh and remind them not to add my account.
It's unfortunate that modified copies "may not be distributed without prior consent of the author", killing any possibility of a "neoxv" fork.
Well, just look at what happened to xsnow. I installed Slackware 15.0 and my config automatically starts xsnow. I wanted to see why it hasn't started, only to discover a configuration window under my xterm, without borders or titlebar.
My next reaction was: removepkg xsnow, fetch xsnow-1.42, xmkmf, make, make install.
It changes the colors to greyscale for my non-color laser printer, scales it perfectly to fit the 8.5x11" paper, and prints.
I remember in 1997 during the first Mars Pathfinder rover mission that NASA was basically doing a live screen sharing session from someone's desktop and they used "xv" to load the image. I was 27 but I grew up obsessed with space exploration. Well I still love it, but at the bottom it said "UNREGISTERED COPY" and people on Usenet were talking about how NASA didn't register their copy. I think they did later but I was just so excited to see xv on national television.
Things are being added now though.
https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#xoj
There are a bunch of great stuff on this link
Mine was kind of bluey-purpley-grey.
So it's not like these things are going to break anytime soon...
2) X apps work on Wayland, Quartz, etc. because there are X servers foe those environments, Xwayland is currently the only maintained X server; it too will eventually go away (especially when the toolkit maintainers drop X support altogether).
Just googling to check that claim. As a random example: xorg-server in Arch was last updated on 12/19/22. Six days ago.
Wayland proponents are so aggressive like this. You want to deny that anyone is still interested in X. Maybe it won't have dramatic changes. But people will be patching it for years.