[TUHS] Re: X11 Conservancy Project

[segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

Does the project accept patches to old X11 applications to get them working again?  I've recently been tinkering with xfm, would love to contribute my retooling to such an effort.

- Matt G.

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On Sunday, December 25th, 2022 at 10:15 AM, Michelangelo De Simone <michel@ngelo.eu> wrote:


> From [1]:
> 
> The X11 Conservancy Project (X11CP) pulls together the disparate set of programs which were being written between the very late 80s, and early 90s -- usually for Unix and Linux.
> 
> …snip…
> 
> As the Internet expanded and Linux distributions became established, certain FTP sites were largely used to host some of the more established programs, as well as those found in the LSM.
> 
> …snip…
> 
> But the early dawn of free software, especially around applications written for X11, using Motif and XT and other widget libraries has now mostly been consigned to obscurity.
> With X11 itself now under threat of no longer being developed in favour of Wayland, these applications are going to be harder to run and be discovered.
> 
> Hence, the X11CP is designed to be a central place for hosting the sources of these applications, and to showcase their unique history and properties. In keeping this software active, it will help keep an important historical point alive.
> 
> [1] https://x11cp.org/
> 
> — Michelangelo
>