[Discuss] Future of X11 (was Trying to connect to internet in Debian)

[Kent Borg]

On 1/18/26 10:58 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
> I have a VM for programming.

I also do some native development on Raspberry Pis, again an X11 window 
for my emacs IDE. (Compared to a local VM the UI is a little slower to a 
Raspberry Pi on the same wifi, and a lot slower to a Raspberry Pi 
3,000-miles away.)

-kb


P.S. The package "emacs-lucid" works better for this than does "emacs". 
(Again evidence I am in obscure territory, but someone else does care.) 
I like to be able to start emacs as text only ("-nw") in a long-lived 
screen session, and then add an X11 window (or two) later. On "emacs" 
the whole process will die if the X11 window goes away. On "emacs-lucid" 
the emacs process is a lot more robust.