Xorg is a Bitch

X11/Xorg still disappoints me. Unless you’re an Xorg developer it’s almost impossible to compile it from scratch and set it up properly. Not to mention the fact that the code is too vast for me to care to poke around in. This means my uClibc + Busybox distro I’ve created for my older laptop has lacked a windowing system, and thus has been without GUI capability. It’d be nice to be able to view PDFs or open up Firefox every now and then.

That’s partly why, after 3 years, I was still excited about Y-windows, now the newly forked Dsy Windows. Built on top of SDL, it has the potential to have a smaller code-base than X and be much easier to install. However, tonight I discovered the Xynth windowing system, which seems to be further along than DsY, so my excitement has shifted. I’ve yet to get it up and running, but it compiles and more importantly, it doesn’t give me crap about missing rgb, font or xkbcomp files.