Coordinates are fixed at 16 bits

>coordinates are fixed at 16 bits

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You don't need more.

Oh yeah, smarty pants, what if I wanna play 4D chess?

xorg for life, tho

>what if i need-
Bloat.
>b-but
Bloat.

Give a use case for needing more than 64K pixels.

Sub-pixel accuracy?

*32K pixels, they're signed 16bits

holy shit that's even better. what the hell was the point of doing this rather than agreeing to set the top left corner to 0 and have values increasing downward and to the right?

you can move a window past the left side of the screen and have the edge hang off, try it

Name a use case for this

looking at porn but you want to hide the dick and only see the girl

By the time monitors larger than 32k x 32k pixels become a thing Linux will (hopefully) be dead.

Couldn't you hypothetically just use Xext and add a new extension?

yes and then you get to patch every client ever made to use the new extension

big deal, I'm sure some autist will figure out some weirdo middleman library to make it seamless if they really want to

then you get to patch every client ever made to use the middleman library

Nah, just make the middleman library also provide the old library's symbols too. That means all it would need is a rebuild.

not possible, changing the type of a function argument is an API break

Who said anything about changing the function arguments? It takes the same shit but inside the new library you do the voodoo to turn into what you need.

the old library symbols use the old coordinates

Don't link the old library anymore. Link the new one. The new one provides exactly the same functions with the same arguments but inside those functions they do the coordinate transformation.

ok you transform 40000 to -25536 and it's still messed up

it just werks. i won't stop using it til wayland just werks better. but i don't see that happening anytime soon.
have fun with your hobby project display server, ladies.

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All of Linux is a hobby OS. X11 is also a hobby project display server that doesn't werk. Accept it for you know it is the truth.

>X11 is a hobby project
you fucking retarded zoomers i swear to god

>A HOBBY PROJECT IS BAD BECAUSE IT JUST IS OKAY
You're also not correct anyway.

why would you need that

No you fool. I don't care that it some corporations contributed to it in 1992. It has not been that way for many years.

X11 was invented at MIT, you fucking retard. Red Hat and many other companies still maintain the implementation known as X.org.

>ITS NOT BAD BECAUSE I JUST LIKE IT OKAY
Yeah I am correct anyway. Cry.

I don't care where it was invented you fool. MIT abandoned it a very long time ago. It has been developed mostly by hobbyists since then. And a few companies like Red Hat, like you said. But mainly hobbyists.

amazing how a "hobby OS" runs the world. without knowing it, you benefit from linux doing its job for more important tasks than anything you've ever done on your own computer.
and yet somehow, wayland, built atop the shoulders of this massive giant of success and power, has fucked up so badly that it is worse than the worst microsoft jeetware lmfao

Going through the latest X.org commits:
>Apple Inc.
>NVIDIA
>Valve
>Red Hat
>Google
>Oracle

Took me a while to even find a single "hobbyist".