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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rustaceans/116755672316463652yserver― a modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust. <https://github.com/joske/yserver>"… there are multiple projects on GitHub with this name (but none for X11 servers), the name is subject to change. …"<https://lobste.rs/s/yy8je0/yserver_modern_x11_server_written_from><https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server> "… can currently run a full MATE, Xfce, or Cinnamon X11 desktop. The prominent X11 extensions from RandR to DRI3, GLX, MIT-SHM, Composite, and others are supported. And, yes, with working Compiz goodness too: … open-source under an MIT license. …"<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531394><https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u31shc/comment/or1re0p/>#AI #Linux #X11 #yserver #Rust

One of my biggest "frustrations" when migrating from OpenBSD to FreeBSD as my daily driver, was the loss of of working media keys on my Das Keyboard - especially the very convenient volume jog wheel. After some poking around i confirmed that the usbhid driver was working - and also default enabled in FreeBSD15 kernel. Xev tool printed the correct keycode events keycode 122 = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 123 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 172 = XF86AudioPlay The problem narrowed down to how to map these event to something useful I found a working solution in this discussion thread, by using the x11/sxhkd daemon to pass the events to mixer(8) https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-enabling-multimedia-keys-gamepads-joysticks-for-desktop-usbhid.84464/ I had to tweak the sxhkd config a bit to work properly with mixer ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc XF86Audio{Play,LowerVolume,RaiseVolume} mixer {vol.mute="toggle",vol="-3%", vol="+3%"} Then I invoke the sxhkd daemon from my ~/.xsession file sxhkd & exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm3 Viola! #FreeBSD #Solved #X11 #FVWM3 #Xorg #AskFedi