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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