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Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato

by ingenieroariel on 12/26/24, 5:49 PM with 9 comments

• by yjftsjthsd-h on 12/26/24, 11:51 PM

  > In the last release post we hinted at how Xarcan can be used to keep your own window manager, letting Arcan act as a display driver — as well as a security, control and configuration plane that selectively merge in arcan native clients with options for how, or if, X clients gets to see inputs and clipboard action.

  Alright, I'm probably sold. A couple of Wayland's greatest faults are that 1. they enthusiastically broke everything that X provided except for displaying windows on screen, and 2. after 16 years so far, they haven't actually provided replacements. So anything that lets us improve on the X server while keeping backwards compatibility is a huge leap forward; I just want to see if the compat is good enough for accessibility and automation tools[0] to work smoothly.

  [0] This is 1 category, not 2.

• by systems on 12/26/24, 8:11 PM

  from the about

  "Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything between user interfaces for specialised embedded applications all the way to full-blown standalone desktop environments. Boot splash screen? no problem. Custom Interface for your Home Automation Project? sure thing. Stream media processing? Of course."

  Still dont really understand what this is?