I've been somewhat waiting for some sign from above that Wayland is actually a real, usable piece of software, as it's been hyped as "xorg, but doesn't suck".  My limiters are fglrx support (again, my damn 6-head ati card), and decent support for window environments, mostly kde I use on everything now. 

At your mention, I looked at Wayland as it's been a while, and still seems like a tech demo more than a usable product.

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/06/starting-a-full-kde-plasma-session-in-wayland/
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-kde-plasma-5-on-kubuntu-14-04-kubuntu-14-10-and-linux-mint-17-kde/

I did try the oss ati driver vs. fglrx, and sadly it was only seeing one monitor, wanting to only replicate the output across all 6.  Scratch.

Ubuntu/compiz is just out of the question, I tried lxde, mint (cinnamon/mate), gnomeshell, and more or less hate them all vs. kde that remains the most usable/bug-free.  I might try that second link later and see how my mileage might vary, but I'm still stuck on using kde as the least sucky (usable) desktop out there atm.

I did try lxde with marco as a compositor, but it was as buggy, or worse than compiz in dealing with my giant 11520x1200 framebuffer.  So far Kwin is the least buggy at it, and I still can't spawn an opengl game without it flickering like an epilepsy-inducing apparatus by design as they all do. 

Apparently no one considers someone might actually try and make 6 displays work, aside from me of course, but then the rest of the x issues just compound it to make that the least of my worries.  I had designs to replace my 6x displays with 3x 4k res displays (11520x2160), but I need to see this will even work stable before bothering.

-mb



On 06/11/2015 08:09 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:

Have you tried weyland yet to see if it is any improvement? I think fedora has a build running weyland. (memory is fuzzy on this one.)

On Jun 11, 2015 5:20 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael@butash.net> wrote:
So this seems to be a big problem for me, in that it simply refuses to open new apps, and find this happens more and more these days. Am I like the only actual person to use linux these days that this occurs with?

I've seen reports of this, stating it's a hard-coded thing in xorg code, which I find entirely asinine, but seems a reality when using Chrome/Chromium that launches some 300 flocks on various things, and blows out the 256/512 client count on xorg.  I find this almost stupid, and feel I'm back to the days of windoze me having to reboot every other day.

Reality is I have 3 chrome profiles open, some pdfs, libreoffice, some chrome apps, some file manager windows (dolphin/kde), and not much else.  Sort of want to punch someone in the face when I see this - someone is obviously doing something wrong, and really can't see why.  All I can ever think is really, am I the only person that really "uses" a linux desktop to see these?

Uninstalling pepperflash, or any flash vermin, seems to have done some good, no longer causing a persistent memory leak in xorg/fglrx drivers, but otherwise chrome|chromium still seems an absolute basketcase under linux, forgetting there are resource limits they should consider adhering to.

-mb
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