Natty and X11

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon May 2 11:55:55 UTC 2011


On 2 May 2011 02:32, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 21:16 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 1 May 2011 20:23, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Would someone verify for me, who has installed Natty, if Xvfb is still
>> > available in the packages? I'm wondering just how much of X11 will be
>> > missing, with all of the changes. I really need it for a java project to
>> > work serving X11 applications via Xvfb. Thanx, Ric
>> >
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xvfb
>>
>> Shouldn't really be anything of X "missing" in the upgrade to Natty.
>
> Ah, so that replacement for X (wayland) isn't going to happy with
> Natty. :) Ric

Wayland is not coming yet. It probably won't be in 11.10, either, I
have read somewhere. So they *definitely* won't bring it in with 12.04
which is an LTS release.

So don't look for it before 12.10, I think - which is still 18mth away.

This is guesswork, of course - who really knows?

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