Why X Is Not Our Ideal Window System

ssigna11 about 4 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on people.freedesktop.org

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WarOnPrivacy•34 minutes ago

I suggest stripping the tracking query from the url so it's just:

    https://people.freedesktop.org/~ajax/WhyX.pdf

anenefan•about 3 hours ago

... 1990. Not verified (as it requires money) but as best as I can determine, first published in 1990 - Software, practice & experience. 1990, Vol 20, pp S2.137-S2.171 ; NS2 ; ref : 12 ref CODEN SPEXBL ISSN 0038-0644

WarOnPrivacy•29 minutes ago

1990 looks right for a post date

    ref: https://dblp.org/pid/m/MarkSManasse.html
    ref: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.4380201409

It's a shame it's historical. I was hoping that X had been lurking around all this time and was about to stage a comeback.

I have fond memories of Quaterdeck's DESQview/X system.